Can't Change Quotes - Page 3

• I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Want, Can't Change

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• We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Thinking, Elements

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

  Kathy Acker

  People, Want, Middle

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Destination, Sail

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• We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Study, Human Nature

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

  Ba Jin

  Facts, Kill Me, Can't Change

  "Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

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• Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

  Warren Buffett

  Love You, People, Interesting

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• We can't change the world until we change ourselves.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Hip Hop, World, Life Happiness

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• You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• There's much you can't change, but there's something important you can change: you.

  Rick Warren

  Encouragement, Important, Can't Change

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• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Honest, Limitless

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Shopping, World, Suits

  "The end is nigh" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2001.

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• I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

  John Grisham

  Apples, Orange, Genius

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• You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Past, Destiny, Choices

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• You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

  Neal Shusterman

  Law, Firsts, Human Nature

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Time, Failure

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2012

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• Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Attitude, Sorrowful, Can't Change

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• You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.

  Jessica Watson

  Way, Deals, Can't Change

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• The red washing
  down the bathtub
  can’t change the color of the sea
  at all.

  Derrick C. Brown

  Color, Sea, Red

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• People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

  James Altucher

  Life Changing, People, Dolls

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• Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mean, World, Revolution

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• I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

  Toni Morrison

  Crazy, Wish, World

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• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Sleep, Thinking

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• If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

  Peter Drucker

  Measurement, Measure For Measure, Can't Change

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• Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

  Sam Walton

  Exercise, Psychology, Way

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