Causing Change Quotes

1. "Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will."
Author: Aleister Crowley

2. "No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing."
Author: Alexandra Robbins

3. "And Pudgy," she called after him, causing him to hesitate at the door, "Sometimes the best way to change someone else's behavior is to change your own."
Author: Anonymous

4. "Life would move on with or without me, and I didn't need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was."
Author: Aubrey Rose

5. "[When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world?']It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc."
Author: Björk

6. "I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them."
Author: Carolyn Murphy

7. "As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
Author: Carter G. Woodson

8. "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.Cesar ChavezAddress to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984"
Author: César Chávez

9. "To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small."
Author: Charity Sunshine Tillemann Dick

10. "Identity is theft, don't trust anyone whose state vector hasn't forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera."
Author: Charles Stross

11. "What messes us up a lot in this life is setting our expectations way too high and then being ashamed when we fail. What is worse is when we allow other people to make us feel ashamed for failing. What is worse than that is hiding and lying about our failure. It's ok to fail, especially when it's a significant life change and you gotta stand up for that right in this life."
Author: Comic Strip Mama

12. "How slow," I ask wrapping her legs around my waist and lifting her into my lap, causing her to moan with the change of position. "So slow I can feel you enter my soul," she whispers."
Author: Crystal Spears

13. "The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender."
Author: David Allen

14. "I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing."
Author: Diana Ross

15. "Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in."
Author: Doug Dorst

16. "Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key."
Author: Elaine Paige

17. "There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years."
Author: Gordon Getty

18. "A warm sensation fluttered over my body, causing me to shiver in delight. I blushed, even though no one else was in the room."
Author: Inger Iversen

19. "What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool."
Author: Isaac Hanson

20. "Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?"
Author: Jerzy Kosiński

21. "I can say it, but it doesn't seem convincing to most people. I can call it an ‘injustice,' but that doesn't always sink in either. You have to understand the nature of the culture in New York. Words that are equal to the pain of the poor are pretty easily discredited. A quarter of the truth, stated with lots of indirection, is regarded as more seemly.Even when people do accept the idea of ‘injustice,' there are ways to live with it without it causing you to change a great deal in your life. A mildly embarrassed toleration of injustice is an elemental part of cultural sophistication here. the stile is, ‘Oh yes. We know all that. So tell us something new.' There's a kind of cultivated weariness in this. Talking about injustice, I am told, is ‘tiresome' unless you do it in a way that sounds amusing."
Author: Jonathan Kozol

22. "Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person."
Author: Julie Anne Peters

23. "My mouth went dry, my heart clattered. "Nick, don't leave. Don't go," I said unevenly. "Look, it's not that I'm not, you know... it's just that this is all really new and sudden, and it's hard—""It's not hard for me!" he barked, causing both the cabbie and me to jump. "Harper, I've loved you all my adult life, but you just can't believe that, and nothing I do will change your mind. You want a guarantee, you want a fucking crystal ball to see the future, and I can't give you one. The only thing I can say is that I love you, I always have. I always will, but somehow that's not good enough for you. And I just can't do this anymore."
Author: Kristan Higgins

24. "Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not about how good you are technically. It's about your soul coming through. It's about having fun."
Author: Lisa Rinna

25. "What if I told you I was a bad person, once?" Justin's voice was low; it was almost lost in the whirring of their tire spokes. Carly thought about it. "I'd say you're even more amazing for being able to change. Most can't, you know. Most bad people justify their actions, at least to themselves. I bet if you took a poll, very, very few people would say they're bad. They're good people with bad circumstances, they'd say. And even those who seek forgiveness in religion or in the secular world don't always manage to change themselves. That takes a massive amount of effort. Not many are able to accomplish it because it's just too hard, or maybe they didn't really want to change in the first place. They just wanted justification." Justin laughed softly. "And you say you're not smart."
Author: Lissa Bryan

26. "I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed."
Author: Michael Stipe

27. "During Flood grass usually stays in ground firmly but trees do not so don't become trees need to change from one environment to other and accept any risk so that you can stand still during difficulties."
Author: N/A

28. "The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.."
Author: Paul Theroux

29. "I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge."
Author: Robert Goulet

30. "I'm a girl."When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she said.Deryn's mouth feel open. "You mean you...Did you barking know?""I had no idea at all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised." Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. "Though on this occasion, it is proving rather more demanding than usual. A girl, you say? And you're quite certain?"
Author: Scott Westerfeld

31. "Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough."
Author: Shania Twain

32. "Security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even dangerous."
Author: Theodore Dalrymple

33. "Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant."
Author: Tony Robbins

34. "A change of style is a change of meaning."
Author: Wallace Stevens

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