People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
~By Temple Grandin ~
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
~By Henry Reed ~
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
~By Branch Rickey ~
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
~By Cotton Fitzsimmons ~
The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.
~By Jillian Bach ~
Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
~By Bonnie Tyler ~
If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.
~By Andy Partridge ~
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
~By James Bovard ~
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
~By John Barton ~
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
~By Leonard Orr ~
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
~By Steven Tyler ~
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
~By David Korten ~
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
~By Robert Quillen ~
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
~By Paul Dirac ~
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
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.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
~By Colley Cibber ~
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
~By Paula Danziger ~
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
~By Eric Clapton ~
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
~By Thom Mayne ~
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
~By Carl Rogers ~
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~By Andy Warhol ~
The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.
~By Puff Daddy ~
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
~By John McGahern ~
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
~By Bobby Knight ~
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
~By William Cowper ~
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
~By Owen Hart ~
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
~By Primo Levi ~
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
~By Anne Grant ~
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
You can't change the system through violence.
~By Alex Cox ~
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
~By John Grierson ~
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
I believe the anthropogenic effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate.
~By Kanya Kusano ~
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
~By Gary Oldman ~
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
~By Peter Medawar ~
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
~By Giordano Bruno ~
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
~By Isaac Watts ~
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
~By Issey Miyake ~
Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.
~By David Blunkett ~
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
~By Susan George ~
It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.
~By Louise Jameson ~
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
~By Solomon Burke ~
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
~By Edward Witten ~
Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
~By Albert Finney ~
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
~By Babe Ruth ~
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.
~By John Hench ~
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~By Doris Lessing ~
When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
~By Chris Bell ~
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
~By James J. Gibson ~
All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.
~By John Murray ~
My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
~By Rob Walton ~
I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
~By Samantha Morton ~
In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
~By Ben Edwards ~
But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
~By Earl Browder ~
The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
Having children really changes your priorities.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
~By Jacques Delors ~
I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
~By Frank Lampard ~
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.
~By Stone Gossard ~
I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
~By Johnnie Cochran ~
It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
~By Carl Rogers ~
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
~By Tadao Ando ~
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
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