Trying To Change Quotes - Page 2

• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Mind, Singing, Trying

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• Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

  Martha Beck

  Trying, Belief, Behavior

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

  Rachel Maddow

  Trying, Use, World

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

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• Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

  Tina Weymouth

  People, Important, Trying

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Remember You, Remembers You

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• I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Trying, World, Changing The World

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• I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Thinking, Self

  "It’s Not Girls’ Fault" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2011.

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• As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

  Mike White

  Nice, People, Challenges

  "Mike White walks us through all of Enlightened's second season (1 of 2)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I'm trying to change the world.

  Kid Cudi

  Trying, World, Changing The World

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• Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Heart, Trying, Energy

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• Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Trying, World

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• When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

  Sam de Jong

  Writing, Trying, Negative

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

  Guy Clark

  Real, Writing, Brain

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• The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

  Jo Coudert

  Circles, People, Trying

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

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• Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 01, 2015

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• The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Kings, Thinking, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

  Chris Messina

  Girl, People, Trying

  "Chris Messina Talks Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Argo, the Mindy Project, Damages, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  Faith Evans

  Trying, Widows, Able

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• 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.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, People, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think really the thing you should focus on is why you're for Ted Cruz, 'cause that's I think probably much more persuasive. If you're trying to change people's minds about Donald Trump, tell 'em why you're for Cruz, 'cause you're not gonna talk a Trumpist out of it. And the reason you're not gonna talk a Trumpist out of it is because they're feeling something really good, and they don't want to let go of that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What we learn from the past is that you cannot make peace against people by interfering and - and just launching a war and trying to change a regime without any political solution. So my role is first to avoid any war and try to - to frame the discussion in order to create peace and have a comprehensive peace process and preserve unintelligible and especially in this Middle East region. That's what I tried to do in Lebanon, for instance, by negotiating both with M.B.S., with the Lebanese government.

  Emmanuel Macron

  War, Past, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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