Making Changes Quotes

Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person ... they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture. ~ Frederick Lenz

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from. ~ Kelly Clarkson

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want. ~ Ivy Lee

I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop. ~ Al Franken

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today. ~ Brian Tracy

Behavioral Shifts to Overcome Excessive Hesitancy

Important: So far we've been focusing on how tweaking your thinking can help shift your behavior. This is important, but it's only half the story. People are usually quite good at identifying how changes in thoughts or feelings may lead to changes in behavior, such as "When I have more energy, I'll do more exercise" or "When I have more ideas, I'll take more action." However, people tend to underestimate the impact of changing their behavior on their thoughts and feelings, such as "When I exercise more, l'll have more energy" or "When I take more actions, I'll have more ideas." Don't make the mistake of thinking you need to wait for your thoughts to change before you try behavioral shifts. Mental and behavioral shifts go hand in hand. When you start making changes in your behavior (even subtle ones), you'll notice that all kinds of thoughts, including your view of yourself, start to shift. Changing your behavior, without waiting for you thoughts to always shift first, is one of the best and fastest ways you can reduce your anxiety. That's why a cognitive behavioral approach focuses on both thoughts and behaviors. ~ Alice Boyes

It must happen to us all ... We pack up what we've learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we'll ever know. ~ Richard Bach

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me! ~ Kim Barnouin

But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence 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. ~ Gustavo Gutierrez

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership. ~ Marcus Buckingham

When you are working well with your
energy, you are also making the best
expression of your personal power ... By
reading your own energy, by becoming
aware of the lens through which you see
your world, you can change your mind and change your life. ~ Caroline Myss

Light tomorrow with today. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great. ~ Damien Hirst

People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes. ~ Hoda Kotb

I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am. ~ Meg Tilly

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try. ~ Liya Kebede

It's the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don't want to ever be didactic, but if there's something I do want to say, it's that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children's novels are about getting a grip. ~ Tim Wynne-Jones

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is. ~ Ricardo Semler

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It only takes one person to make a change ... Let it begin with you. ~ Joyce Thompson

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ~ Jackson Pollock

People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots ... Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent. ~ Tiger Woods

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time. ~ Jean Smart

Making changes requires making new and different choices, choices that are more conscious, and more life-supporting. Continuing to do what we have been doing so far is also a choice, but not one that will bring any meaningful improvement. I would suggest that before we can intelligently make new choices, a thorough re-evaluation is in order. We need to look more carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want. ~ Ilchi Lee

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work. ~ Junot Diaz

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. ~ Marvin Minsky

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. ~ Jeremy Renner

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. ~ Roy Bennett

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference. ~ James Balog

Whatever your favorite kind of resistance is, it is likely to go into full bloom as you start making changes to your livelihood because this is an area that is linked with survival (our job is what pays our bills) as well as identity (our job is how we define ourselves). As a matter of fact, the more resistance you encounter, the more likely that you're hitting paydirt in your transformational process. ~ Maia Duerr

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works. ~ Pat Garrett

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. ~ Eric Cantona

That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.
It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes. ~ Ilchi Lee

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. ~ Ai Weiwei

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible. ~ Henry Rosovsky

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change. ~ Michael Eric Dyson

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself. ~ David Bowie

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it. ~ John C. Maxwell

Until you are aware in the moment of your thoughts, emotions, words, and behaviour, you will have difficulty making changes in the direction of your life. ~ Dee Waldeck

Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change
without fear. ~ Debra Messing

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Change and everything will change for you. ~ Jim Rohn

It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective ~ Death Cab For Cutie

Stop making excuses, start making changes! ~ Habeeb Akande

Don't worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear...Listen to the technical people. If they are complaining about the difficulty of making changes, then take such complaints seriously and give them time to fix things. -Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks (from Is Design Dead?) If ~ Jason Fried

I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance. ~ David Simon

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list. ~ Al Gore

Trying to change the outside by making changes to the outside, is like trying to make your lips red in your reflection by putting lipstick on the mirror! ~ Odille Rault

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different ... ~ Danielle Steel

Accept the challenge and never fear to change. ~ Debasish Mridha

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed. ~ Edward Hirsch

I don't drop players. I make changes. ~ Bill Shankly

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another. ~ Dario Argento

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists. ~ T. Harv Eker

Making changes was my responsibility. Having a great guy was just a bonus. ~ Sylvia Day

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. ~ Sydney Banks

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back. ~ Tori Amos

Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the future, to be conscious is to be with an experience as it's unfolding, rather than thinking about how we would like to change it. Taking charge of our life so that we alter the quality of our experiences in the future comes after an experience. ~ Shefali Tsabary

We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in the region to decide on its own how it will proceed and at what pace. There are other nations in the region that had similar policies to Saudi Arabia that are starting to make changes, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco. And so it takes time but when you see the need for such changes, then changes tend to follow. ~ Colin Powell

It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action. ~ John Francis Daley

Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world. ~ Larry H. Miller

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual. ~ Sam Elliott

So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas. ~ Stephen Covey

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible ~ Monique Wittig

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too. ~ Mandy Hale

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes. ~ Aidan Chambers

I have enjoyed anchoring at 'Headline News' but have decided that it is time for me to make a change in my daily professional life. ~ Andrea Thompson

Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.
Isabelle Lightwood ~ Cassandra Clare

In the end I have to hold myself accountable ... I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me. ~ Kara Goucher

Make changes in your life; don't wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are one energy. Together we can make a change. ~ David Guetta

Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders. ~ Vince Poscente

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change. ~ Seth Godin

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers. ~ Ice-T

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ~ Richard Russo

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words. ~ Sam Mendes

Ruprecht can build another pod though, right? I mean it was mostly just tinfoil.'
'The problem is that he has no blueprint. From the original design he keeps making changes, but these he does not write down. So it is impossible to replicate exactly.'
Later that day, Ruprecht approaches Skippy. His expression is feverish. 'I've devised a foolproof plan to get my pod back from St Brigid's,' he says. 'I call it, "Operation Falcon".'
Skippy looks dubious.
'This is your chance to get in on the ground floor!'
'No way, Ruprecht, not after how that last one went.'
'That was Operation Condor. This is Operation Falcon. It's a totally different operation.'
'Sorry. ~ Paul Murray

Allowing others to suffer the consequences of their own actions, without enabling them, is the best motivation for them to undertake the difficult task of change. ~ Darlene Lancer

A book can change the world ... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. ~ Jackie French

The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome. ~ Mark Waid

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. ~ Jackson Pollock

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors. ~ Stephen Covey

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up. ~ Paula Danziger

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton. ~ Wallace Shawn

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice. ~ Jim Rohn

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring. ~ William J. Clinton

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has. ~ Jonathan Barnbrook

Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way. ~ Victoria Justice

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed. ~ Rick Pitino

The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think that our script is the bible. We want to make sure that the story is told, that you stick to the story but if you have to make changes to the character then that's fine. A lot of times there are some funny one-liners, funny things that happen that are out of the ordinary. I like it. ~ Todd Farmer

I'm starting with the man in the mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways;
And no message could have been any clearer,
If you wanna make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change! ~ Michael Jackson

True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently. ~ Debasish Mridha

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction. ~ Mary Beth McKenzie

Don't make excuses! Make changes! ~ Tony Gaskins

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. ~ Henry Cloud

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower. ~ Peyton Manning

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart. ~ Avi