Trying To Change Quotes - Page 4

• Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation? This is what scares people. These folks think that to accept the reality of karma one must be passive. It simply isn't true. Karma is active. We can - in the blink of an eye - make decisions that will shape our futures and transform the parts of our lives that are causing us unhappiness.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Eye, Reality

  Mary T. Browne (2013). “The Power of Karma: How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.

  Darren Hardy

  Years, Old Habits, Effort

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• People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape?

  Miley Cyrus

  Eye, People, Trying

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

  Emily Haines

  People, Trying, Band

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

  Barack Obama

  Government, People, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Trying, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Cities, Trying

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• I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

  George Strait

  Country, Trying, World

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• I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

  Rick James

  Roots, Trying, Progressive

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 06, 2014

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• Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

  David Geffen

  Artist, People, Trying

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• I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.

  Neville Goddard

  Keys, Doors, Expression

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• And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

  Trish Stratus

  Team, Character, Personality

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• It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

  Lights

  Trying, World, Changed

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• A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Interesting, Trying, Needs

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• I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.

  Sarah Lacy

  Passion, Swinging For The Fences, Two

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• Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Feel Better, Animal

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• I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

  Gail Collins

  Law, Guy, Trying

  "Who Decided That This Election Should Be About Sex?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it ... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.

  Beth Ditto

  Sick, Childhood, Trying

  "The insiders guide to Beth Ditto". www.cnn.com. November 24, 2006.

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• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  People, Trying, Situation

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• 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.

  Tom Robbins

  Always Trying, World, Said

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• Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

  Roald Dahl

  Vegetables, Interesting, Trying

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• We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Love Is, People

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• Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Trying, Watches

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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