925 private quotes tagged change

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.” — Rob Reiner

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“I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.” — Michelle Obama

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“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” — Erica Jong

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“The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.” — Emma Watson

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“All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.” — Paul Hawken

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“I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.” — Temple Grandin

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“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.” — William Cowper

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“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.” — Emma Goldman

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“Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.” — Janet Napolitano

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“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” — Milan Kundera

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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.” — Jose Mourinho

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“I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.” — Mark Knopfler

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“Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.” — Tori Amos

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“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.” — Edward de Bono

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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” — Harold Wilson

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“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.” — Lord Acton

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“I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.” — Enrique Iglesias

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“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.” — Michelle Obama

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