Changing The World Quotes by Eddie Vedder, Nia Vardalos, Peter Thiel, Shakti Gawain, Don DeLillo, Anant Agarwal and many others.
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you’re gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you’re gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
As we know, there are companies like Monsanto filling the Earth with their genetically-modified poison, which makes me wonder how many people share our belief that it’s better to be good.We have to change the world!
I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
I think literature has lost it’s power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.
What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
I didn’t invent something; I just chose to find my strengths and do things that make me happy and work with businesses I’m proud of and create strategies that I think work. And so far, so good, but I’m not changing the world.
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
There’s an old African proverb that says “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” We have to go far – quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world’s consciousness about exactly what we’re facing, and why we have to work to solve it.
We’re not trying to change the world; just music.
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That’s why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.
To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world – the man who is changing the world – is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it’s absolutely insulting.
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
So my view’s quite clear. I believe Cryptocurrencies, bitcoin is the first example, i believe they’re going to Change the world.
Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
Music can change the world.
I used to want to change the world. Now I’m open to letting it change me.
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
The young think about how they’ll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
You’re trying to tell me that everything you’ve done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I’m not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don’t have to behave like you.
I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Yo, you don’t need nobody to represent you.В YouВ represent you.В YouВ represent the best version of who you could be.В YouВ go out there and change the world.
Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people – people like you and me who did things to change the world.
Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.
I said, “If I was a Negro girl-” He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. “We can’t think of changing our skin,” he said. “Change the world-that’s how we gotta think.”
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.
You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
Art isn’t supposed to change the world, but it can.
I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don’t want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.
Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it’s like saying, ‘how big a deal is the internet?’ The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.
Change the world is maybe Obama’s job.
The word ‘professional’ doesn’t hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that’s hard enough.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.
I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
We can change the world one laugh at a time.
It takes a checkbook to change the world
There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I’d agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker – I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.
The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.
If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.
Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don’t deny that.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], вЂThere are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, вЂHow would nature do this?’
There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there’s only one good reason: to change the world.
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.
I – and I bet all the panelists here – truly believe that movies really can change the world.
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send peace to the world. That’s the best contribution to world peace-first the students should find their peace, and then they share with the other students.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you’re in.
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives…Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.
One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
There are many images which I miss on purpose. I’ve done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn’t change the world, or me.
To change the world
It starts with one step
However small
First step is hardest of all.
It starts with one step
However small
First step is hardest of all.
We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.
When we change our thoughts, we can truly change the world.
You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you’re not there to change the world I don’t know what you’re there for. I mean, it doesn’t make any sense to me.
I don’t know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
I’m not trying to change the world. I’m trying to stop the world from changing me.
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
What we would like to do is change the world…by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older – today.
When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to change our reality the maturity that comes with that understanding changes us, and we find ourselves in acceptance of what is with less desire of feeling our need to change the world around us.
We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something – even if it fails miserably. But I’ve sort of given up on believing that I’m going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
You write in order to change the world.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.
Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
Music can’t change the world.
Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that’s large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can’t solve.
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future – the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment – that is what will change the world.
Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It’s very sad for me, but that’s the way it is. I can’t change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But … the world keeps turning.
I didn’t want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, ‘Theater is going to change the world’ kind of person. You know, very, very boring.
I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader’s perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.
See the world with the innocence of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.
A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
If I could do just one thing to change the world, I’d make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
The only way to change the world is to change yourself.
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won’t listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven’t heard
The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
Active people don’t change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Look, you’ve got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it’s not supposed to melt, and everything’s changing – the world is changing – and it’s all because of global warming, I think.
Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Stories do not change the world. I’ve learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way… I mean it’s not the world I want to change.
Nelson Mandela saw the potential of Africa and dedicated his life to changing the world in which we live while inspiring a movement towards social justice, peace and equal human rights.
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.
You and I are going to change the world.
Saving just one pet won’t change the world
but surely the world will change for that one pet.
but surely the world will change for that one pet.
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.
One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.
Those that can’t change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!
Technology is changing the world; it’s changing our sport. It’s changing the way people are following the NBA.
Discontentment is a gift. It’s the stuff that changes the world.
One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.
I’d be dishonoring God if I didn’t believe I was put here on Earth to help change the world.
Every single thing you do matters.
You have been created as one of a kind.
You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.
You have been created as one of a kind.
You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.
We’re the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don’t buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.
Time flies when you’re changing the world.
I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it – through this we can really change the world.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters – when I say strong, I don’t mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. …I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
By doing something positive in this world, you’re helping people and the future. We’re all trying to help the world… make it a better place to live. We’re actually still changing the world, aren’t we?
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
Be the change you want to see.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
One person can change the world.
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money – excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
You are not just anyone. One day, you’re going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it’s going to change the world.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.
If you want to change the world, first change your heart.
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.
If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
US dollars should not be used anymore. Western institutions should be ignored. Totally new structures should be, and are being erected. China and Russia are, of course, in the lead of de-dollarization. All this is extremely important and can change the world, in the near future.
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti – writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.
What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a “normal” or a common way to react to different things. But that’s mostly just all it is.
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.
Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.
We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don’t want to change themselves.
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.
You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.
I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and “Storytellers.” People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that’s what I really aim for.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.
Being a person is really hard, obviously depending on your background for some people it can be much harder, but mental health and how we feel about ourselves is so key to changing the world in a positive way.
We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!
That’s really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
The weak can never forgive.
If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.
When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where’er you are.
For me, Superman’s greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it’s the Clark Kent part – the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.
Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.
From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.
I don’t have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
Every day you’re alive, you can change the world. It could be for the better or for the worse. It can be big waves or small waves. The very fact that you’re alive and breathing and walking outside, going to class, whatever it is, you’re changing the world with each footstep. There’s a lot of weight to that.
Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
We are all ONE, no matter in what form, space or time. As ONE we can change the world if we start changing ourselves.
We can’t change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.
‘I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.’ This is the dream of the African girl.
What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it’s so sad that there are so many musicians who don’t want to change the world.
If you really want toВ change the world, you must firstВ understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.
It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
What I’m doing is going to do some good and we’re going to change the world.
My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I’m alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.
To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born.
There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.
This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.
No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it’s also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don’t just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.
When you are finished changing, you are finished.
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I’ll feel my life has been worth it.
Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions… I see it as a gift. It’s my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
I didn’t change the world.
To change the world you’ll need a pen.
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it’s kind of a big name to hold up when you’re nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, ‘This kid’s really weird’.
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
A bullet in the right place can change the world.
stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
I’m certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I’m completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation’s issues, not just Indigenous issues.
I’m able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: “This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?”
Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.
Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you’re alluding to, is at the heart of this.
If you have decided to change the world, don’t read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!
Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.
Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it’s important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
We need to create a new paradigm of development and happiness that can generate a three-dimensional peace – peace with ourselves, peace with other people and peace with mother earth. Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.
One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.
When I’ve met people that work in any walk of life they say, “If it wasn’t for punk I wouldn’t be doing it this way.” I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.
You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.
If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don’t resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God’s strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies
Small things done with great love will change the world.
To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.
I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don’t want to change the world that’s not what my music is about.
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
Social media is changing the world, and we’re all here whitnessing it.
I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can’t say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.
I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.
You’re changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That’s why I say this is a life long struggle – for everybody.
Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn’t want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.
You don’t have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I’d love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
I don’t want to look up and think, ‘Wow, I had a moment to really be a part of changing the world, and I didn’t live up to it.’
It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
You can’t change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
I think being able to identify with young people and…their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that’s the greatest strength.
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.
I believe it’s time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly and honor and a gift: it opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.
If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
You know, I don’t think my music is important, I don’t think it’s changing the world, I don’t think it’s art. I just think it’s music. It is what it is.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world … but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
It’s really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn’t change.
You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.
Build what you want to see in the world.
India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.
I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.
I’m very passionate about charity… Performing is my passion. But it’s not gonna change the world. That’s why I give back.
We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
Technology is changing the world around us at a rapid pace, and the capabilities of connected devices will continue to advance at break-neck speed.
Wishes are powerful things. You can’t expect them to change the world without changing you too.
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
I see my shows like Gandhi, and I’ve got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I’m a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.
We’re changing the world with technology.
With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world …make it a better place for this and future generations.
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed….which hasn’t gotten us anywhere – now’s the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.
Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world’s soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
The best ideas in the world will accomplish nothing if you leave them on paper. Talk about them. Debate, discuss, argue. Put them into action. Then you can change the world.
You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want”. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you’re dirty and rattled.
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.
I think a lot of people came into rock n’ roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n’ roll to make music.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking…no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.
This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let’s try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it’s your duty.
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don’t want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That’s not how the world works.
It’s certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
Each day is a surprise – and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting the news, I work to change the world a little bit. I want readers – and viewers – to be surprised and captivated and even inspired.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It’s unreliable levers that are the problem.
We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.
A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.
I don’t know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like – the reason why I called the album “Our Version of Events” was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.
You weren’t going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.
When we pray, we don’t change the world, we change ourselves.
How we eat can change the world
You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world.
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
There are times when I feel like I’m a traveling minister. I’m trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
You know that you can’t go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it’s so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
I can’t change you and you can’t change me, but together we can work to change the world.
Everything I’ve done hasn’t worked out – you know, some things aren’t as great as others – but I’m having so much fun, who cares? Isn’t that what an artist is supposed to do? We’re trying to change the world. Otherwise, why be an artist? You want to shake people up and make ’em think.
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can’t change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani teenager literally can change the world, while American teenagers literally can’t even.
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
Clothes aren’t going to change the world, the women who wear them will
You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
One person can’t change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he’s two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.
We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!
You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make … every single action you take … matters. But remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make … every action you do not take … matters just as much.
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling… I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that’s why I went to America. I didn’t intend to stay.
If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don’t like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
I think that people who make films and think they’re changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I’m making politically observant films for audiences.
I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
You don’t need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate these young [Israeli] designers. There’s too much strife in the world. If we become united in our creativity, not only in what we wear, but what we do, we will change the world. It’s truly an honor to be around such inspiration.
I’m not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.
Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.
What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting.
I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they weren’t in it for the money. They started it because they really wanted to create something that; one, they wanted, and two, they thought was going to change the world.
I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.
Isn’t it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?
We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.
Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.
[My favorite decade] probably the ’60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn’t shown up, so people hadn’t started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one .
…you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
Your future shines bright – find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.
You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share. You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.
I’m not going to change the world overnight. It’s one person at a time, and hopefully they’re people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
Let’s embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don’t change the world, and I’d rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.
I don’t feel like I can change the world. I don’t even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.
Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.
I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world
And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.
The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That’s the reality that I’ve recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.
Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
What words are in you that can change the world?
I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on “making money”… If that’s all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly “make money.” Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we’ll change the world for the best.
In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw – and WRITE.
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to change the world, has been important from the first, and has continually increased in importance, until it has almost ousted theoretical science from men’s thoughts.
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a
consequence of what we have become.
consequence of what we have become.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.
These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.
The artist has tremendous power to change the world.
Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it’s important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.
I am going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.
When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people’s.
You write in order to change the world … if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world… The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way… people look at reality, then you can change it.
Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good – compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world – and I’m for all of those things. I’m not a monster.
Change the way you think, and you are already halfway to changing the world.
People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.
Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.
News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
If you don’t require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.
A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.
I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
If you want to change the world, change yourself.
I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work.
The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.
We need a critical В theory В that seeks to change the world by challenging the world – including the world of evangelicals – in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.
If we’re going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.
Now is our time to change the world
I do believe that painting can change the world.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.
In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.
For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it’s a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it’s changing the world, like if ‘This American Life’ suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people’s lives better? That’s the stuff I’m most proud of.
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world.В This is the secret of authentic happiness.
As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.
Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.
I do not sleep to dream
but dream to change the world
but dream to change the world
Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.
Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.
the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
The little bit you and me might change the world,” Malloy smiled, “it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We’d never see it.” “But it’d be there.
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
I’m not out to change the world. I’m out to change mine.
I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I’m pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.
Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came – in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree – I was ready.
Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.
Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work.
Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
Changing the world is not easy.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. вЂYou know, actually change something.’ вЂWhat, like “change the world”, you mean?’ вЂNot the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.
That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can’t change anything but yourself.
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people… well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it – that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.
Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That’s not stealing outright.
Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.
If you’re willing to change the world let love be your energy
We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.
If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.
We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
I’m here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
Don’t change the world, change worlds.
Ordinary won’t change the world.
If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can’t handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that’s not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that’s why I don’t drink anymore.
Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
Life is tough – and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!
If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.
It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
We should tell more young designers not to worry about what they’re going to do with their design careers. They should start their own brands. Designers should create their own beautiful brands that can change the world.
Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.
If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.
I do think I might scare some guys, because I’m like, ‘I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?’ But I only know how to be me.
Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingl y on the Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God’s Word with whomever they met! This could change the world.
Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.
When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we’ve done a lot of things without even realizing it, and yes, just being unusual, as you say, does not put you above, in a sense, any of the other organisms with whom we share this planet.
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it’s being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn’t have as much experience as you. If you’re passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.
I’ve seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I’ve seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I’ve seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
We can’t think of changing our skin color. Change the world – that’s how we gotta think.
You’ll never change the world if you’re worried about being liked.
The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I want to keep changing the world. It’s possible. The black gay lead is ready. It’s time.
My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.
Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.
I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards.
I don’t want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.
I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people’s lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company’s continued success and leadership in changing the world.
Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we’ve known closely, and equally by those we’ve never known at all – and that we too can change the world long after we’ve left it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
You gotta be able to change worlds.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
I don’t think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don’t believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.
Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you’re in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.
I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.
A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. […] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it’s enough to tell a few good jokes.
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.
By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
I don’t like the kind of writer who’s out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Changing the world’s oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.
Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quietly than other bands.
If you want to change the world, change it through the market
I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.
Love and death are very similar. They’re the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.
Hunger also changes the world – when eating can’t be a habit, then neither can seeing.
If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.
Personally, I believe there’s a limitation to how much politics can change the world–but there’s no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world’s rulers are subject to a higher authority.
A book can change the world… Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child’s brain.
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway… And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.
I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
Children can change the world.
Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.
If I decided I’m the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.
We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We’re in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That’s why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs.
Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say ‘We’ve discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.’ And if it doesn’t change the world, then they say, ‘There’s an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.’
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
When you see an opportunity to change the world, get up and get the job done!
Get Creative – You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!
When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something like that and aim high. You’re probably not going to get beyond your dreams. So you might as well make them big.
You’re going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You’ll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.
I’d rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.
Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.
I feel like having a positive attitude in life is going to change the world. If we could all have a good attitude, we could really make a change.
I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
Changes don’t happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy…the world would be transformed.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I’m definitely one of those.
I just try to get people to laugh – I’m not trying to change the world or anything.
You’re not changing the world at $500 million in revenue. You start making a true difference when you’re doing billions in revenue.
Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.
Don’t accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that’s not for me, this is a complicated business. They’re wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.
You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world – because you do.
Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.
Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I’m a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
The gun goes off and everthing changes… the world changes… and nothing else really matters.
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.
A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.
We want to change the world, but we aren’t willing to change ourselves.
In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!
I don’t think ’90s music was as significant as ’60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family…my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
But you’re so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine
We’re changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.
There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we’re not pawns, we’re not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!
I feel like I’m a showbiz professional. This is my job, it’s going to have ups and downs. I’m lucky to be able to do this for a living, but I also do feel like I don’t anticipate changing the world. All I can really do is do a good job when I’m hired to do a job, and be happy at home.
You know things are moving. You’re changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.
Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world — for us.
The world can only change from within.
We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, “I’m only human. Nobody’s perfect. I accept my limitations.” And we know others who take an opposite view and say, “I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world.” And those are the ones who most often change the world.
You won’t be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don’t change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.
…..before we can change the world we need to change our minds.
Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day
We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we’re out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There’s a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.
[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives.
My generation has the opportunity to change the world.
It makes me feel good to do some things for my people. I believe we really help. I know we are not changing the world, but we try to help different people in different situations and we think we are accomplishing it.
We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure…ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair…New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling… I do believe that painting can change the world.
There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world
I’m a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.
Focus and simplicity…once you get there, you can move mountains.
If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you’re not one of those that will
We were wild-eyed hippies from the late ’60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding ’60s – that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public – and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
Changing the world doesn’t require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi’s teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
Being willing is not enough. We must do.
The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.
The comedy community is fairly supportive of human beings in general. There are some things you can teach with comedy that people can’t learn by being hit over the head with facts. I think, as comedians, we’re trying to change the world. It’s slow, but sure.
It’s easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which we all want to do, you have to make bets and you have to be willing to fail.
I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks – it’s important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation – it takes the edge off, it’ll get you through; and the revolution – believing in changing the world.
Nothing’s gonna change the world, nothing’s gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.
Make a plan to change the world. For
one night, don’t disbelieve that you can.
one night, don’t disbelieve that you can.
I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.
I can’t change the world, but I’m hoping that what I say and do will inspire everyone to try.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.” -Steve Jobs
If we would change the world, we must first change people’s thoughts.
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don’t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.
The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore your self! There is power in you — the power to change yourself and to change the world.
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.
Because I don’t think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don’t doubt that a man like that can change the world…or at least a little part of it.
In charity, every little bit works. You can’t change the world. You can’t do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Why change the world? Change worlds!
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.
It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
There’s a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.
I like risk takers. They’re the ones that end up changing the world.
Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better. It’s a moral obligation to try to improve things a little bit at a time.
Institutions don’t change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.
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We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.
The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn’t quite happen.
If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters … we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.
Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow’s world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.
It doesn’t matter what your probability of failure is. If there’s a 90% chance of failure, there’s a 10% chance of changing the world.
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual’s lives so they can change the world.
The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.
To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can’t. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.
Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.
If you learn something that changes you, you’ve made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you’ve helped change the world.
How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.
Sport has the power to change the world… Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
And as I’m striving to change the world, I will be happy.
I am in the world to change the world.
Mother Earth is changing the world. She is in control now, so we don’t have to do anything but just be of service. If she says to do something, okay we do it, and if she doesn’t, then we can relax. We’ve won the game, everything is almost in place. Everything is in balance.
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don’t want to change the world; you want to blow it up.
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power – every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe – is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Even if you Can’t Change the World, you Can Change Individuals
Actually, it does start with you – if you want to change the world, change yourself.
You can change the world, but if no one’s listening, it doesn’t matter.
All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.
There’s people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there’s the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Newtonian physics is over. You don’t act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
You cant change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world
You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.
The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else’s love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
I’m from the ’60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
You don’t change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.
Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won’t kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.
But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
The belief in the ’70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.
Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I’m not asking you to try to change the world. Don’t try: just do it.
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
A human can alter their field, but can’t change the world.
Your voice can change the world.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I’m trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.
So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you’re at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You’re going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.
I’ve always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That’s the problem I would like to solve.
You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.
Vision with action can change the world.
I’m the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn’t be lived in this world.
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we’ve got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that’s what I believe in. That’s why I’m into creating more and more interactions.
If we look long enough and hard enough … we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.
You can change the world. Please don’t do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.
I don’t think we are changing the world here, but we might be influencing a perspective.
Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world’s mind about God.
It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren’t making music because they want to change the world; they’re making music because they want to just make a ton of money.
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
Every hundred feet the world changes
