Can't Change Quotes - Page 10

• 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 can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Destiny, Car, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Learning, Balance

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• If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

  Stuart Wilde

  Change, Journey, Expression

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• I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Language, English Language, Can't Change

  Source: deadline.com

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• I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.

  Clinton Portis

  Taken, Should Have, Three

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• There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

  Josh Billings

  Change, Two, Fool

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

  Carlos Beltran

  Can't Change, I Can

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• I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Directors, Directing Movies, Gender

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

  Antoni Tapies

  People, Looks, World

  "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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• We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

  Guy Spier

  Understanding, Trying, World

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• Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.

  Colleen Hoover

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Healthy, World, Break

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• You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

  Renan Barao

  Attitude, Mma, Feet

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• The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Yoga, Today

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• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  Neil Young

  Past, Next, Reason

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• We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Stripes, Racist

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• I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  People, Facts, Painting

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

  Saul Bellow

  Blessing, Boredom, Conviction

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.646, Penguin UK

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• You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

  Neal Shusterman

  Law, Nurse, Firsts

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• I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Regret, Past, Steps

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• You can't change what you don't understand.

  Orson Scott Card

  Acknowledge, Can't Change

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.241, Macmillan

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• You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world

  Austin O'Malley

  Views, Voting, Facts

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• When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Kids, Journey, Self

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