Why Change Quotes Page 2

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.

I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf.

I don't want to change it. I don't want to wake up and suddenly say, 'Oh my God, I can hear.' That's not my dream. It's not my dream. I've been raised deaf. I'm used to the way I am. I don't want to change it. Why would I ever want to change? Because I'm used to this, I'm happy.

One kind word can change someone's entire day.

I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places.

That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?

Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope--so soon--it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked.

'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

I believe that that's why you see all these Pew studies that come out that a lot of people are walking away from the faith. A lot of people are changing what they believe because they really feel lied to. I think that it's very important for people to know what they're signing up for.

No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works.

Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche.

My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you.

When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.

Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change.

Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food.

Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has.

.. strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.

Anxiety is the doorknob. The doorway leads to change. But you have to open the doorknob first.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc.

That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude.

Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.

If youre depending on luck to change your future, dont be surprised when not much changes!

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne.

I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Today the discredit of words is very great.

Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

To change, to convert? Why bother?

Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

[A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.