Ability To Change Quotes - Page 2

• ...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change. They dance for joy around the First Light, look continuously towards Him and are enlightened directly by Him, as they tirelessly sing the praises of the Fount of light and, being ministers of light, transmit illuminating grace to those lower beings who are being enlightened.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Angel

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• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Growing Up, Careers, Ideas

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• Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

  Milan Kundera

  Women, Events, Action

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Thinking, People

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.81, Penguin

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• Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, Powerful, Heart

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• You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Starting, Starting Now

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• You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Sick, Feel Good

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• Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

  Marla Gibbs

  Over You, Mind, Realizing

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• No-one is destined to live a life of poverty, because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life. The law of attraction is the law of creation, and it allows each person to create the life they want. Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Unique, Opportunity, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

  Stephen Hawking

  Population, Use, Growing

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Mean, Exercise, Self

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• Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

  Goldie Hawn

  Stress, Thinking, Mind

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• I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Exercise, Quality

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• There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I didn't get my job by promising a bunch of things. I'm a businessman and a creator. If I don't have the ability to change my mind, if I don't have the ability to be open to different points of view, then I can't do this job properly.

  Joe Quesada

  Jobs, Blow, Views

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• Once any of us conclude- 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change.

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Giving Up, Way, Giving

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• The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

  Michael Porter

  Levels, Easier, Made

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• But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.

  Julie Gregory

  Memories, Wrinkles, Forever

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• The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Successful, Keys, Investment Success

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• When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Dream, Choices, Feelings

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• I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Believe, Imagination, Stronger

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Lobster Boy”, p.90, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Military, Dark

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• I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

  John F. Kerry

  World, Bunch, 1960s

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

  Garry Kasparov

  Psychology, Victory, Coats

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eagles, Wings, World

  Source: libcom.org

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