You Can 27t Change People Quotes

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog's tail wags to communicate. You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments. ~ Jonathan Haidt

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ~ Damien Hirst

And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose ... you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself. ~ Rajneesh

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game. ~ Elizabeth Warren

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck. ~ Louise Hay

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway. ~ Jenny Holzer

You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST,BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE. ~ Lester Swan

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen. ~ Sebastian Vettel

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me. ~ Ba Jin

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. ~ Olivia Munn

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. ~ C.S. Lewis

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career ... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change. ~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall. ~ Chris Hadfield

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding. ~ Tommy McCarthy

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word. ~ Cornelia Funke

We think of color as a thing that we're receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it's possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don't change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision. ~ James Turrell

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching. ~ Brad Gilbert

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. ~ Sebastian Thrun

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on. ~ Carrie Underwood

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?'
" 'The way I want it?'
" 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?'
" 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.'
" 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.'
" 'Mess it up how?'
" 'Forgot it.'
" 'Forgot?'
" 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else. ~ Toni Morrison

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not. ~ Gore Vidal

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. ~ Madeleine Bunting

When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it. ~ W.S. Merwin

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything ... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well. ~ Lydia Lunch

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army. ~ Henning Mankell

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map.
The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey ... ~ Jeanette Winterson

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. ~ Sylvester Stallone

Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry. ~ Bei Dao

It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was. ~ Danielle Dutton

If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

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. ~ Naomi Campbell

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world? ~ Pat Murphy

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. ~ Saul Bellow

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret. ~ Al Franken

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

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. ~ Terry Pratchett

We broke up, and my first reaction was 'Fine - I've been through this too many times. I can't change your mind. I can't live your life for you. You're gone in your direction. I'm going to pick up; I'm going to go in my direction. I'm not going to live in the past. I'm not going to embrace the pain. You go, I'll go, and that will be it.' And I felt that way for an hour and 10 minutes. ~ Dana Gould

Fashion is one thing, you kind of can change your silhouette and try this and try that. But I think that with skin care, you know anything that you put into your skin goes into your body, so you want to know it's actually good for you. So I think I don't believe in fashion when it comes to skin care if that makes sense. ~ Cate Blanchett

You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today. ~ Hal Elrod