Unable To Change Quotes

• One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

  Matt Dillon

  Thinking, Break Out, Able

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• It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

  Angela Merkel

  Nonsense

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Worry, Way

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• One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

  Elif Safak

  Mistake, Acceptance, Past

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• Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Undoing, Charisma

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.101, Routledge

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• Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.

  Enoch Powell

  Believe, Heart, World

  Interview by Brian Walden (29 January 1978), from "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, Phoenix, (p. 800), 1999.

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• When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).

  Craig Groeschel

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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