Quotes About Change

Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

Poverty wastes people; it wastes opportunity.

The Gen X thinks history is a waste of time. This is instant world where only readymade things are valued.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

Activism is wasteful.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.