Changing The World Quotes - Page 11

• If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

  David O. McKay

  People, World, Firsts

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• Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

  Gioconda Belli

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

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• We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

  Jane Goodall

  Differences, Making A Difference, World

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• In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!

  Jules Dervaes

  Essentials, World, Growing

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• I - and I bet all the panelists here - truly believe that movies really can change the world.

  Stacey Snider

  Believe, World

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• I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

  Michael Franti

  Night, World, Helping

  "'The troops thought: this guy's got balls'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, World, Bitcoin

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• I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

  Steve Winwood

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• Every minute a chance to change the world.

  Dolores Huerta

  World, Chance, Minutes

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• It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honor, Mind, World

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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• The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

  Peter Thiel

  Entrepreneur, Secret, World

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.83, Crown Business

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• Phonogram was explicitly about our world. It’s a fantasy which is happening around us all, unnoticed except for those who’ve fallen into its world. In a real way, it’s real. Conversely, W+D is much more overt. The appearance of the gods changes the world, and has changed the world going back. There’s the strong implication that certain figures in our world simply didn’t exist in The Wicked And The Divine‘s world, because they were replaced by a god.

  Kieron Gillen

  Strong, Real, Our World

  "The Wicked + The Divine: The Entire Creative Team Talks Story, Art, Design, Color, Letters + Music". Interview with Patrick A. Reed, comicsalliance.com. June 18, 2014.

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• The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

  Maxine Greene

  Art, World, May

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• I'm not out to change the world. I'm out to change mine.

  Rodney White

  World, Deep Blue Sea, Mines

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  Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  "Obama To Young Scientists: ‘Keep Asking Why’" by Sara Bondioli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2015.

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• What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.

  Ray Ozzie

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.

  Jeff Iorg

  Church, Twenties, World

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• If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

  Cathie Black

  Girl, World, Educate

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• I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Every day you're alive, you can change the world. It could be for the better or for the worse. It can be big waves or small waves. The very fact that you're alive and breathing and walking outside, going to class, whatever it is, you're changing the world with each footstep. There's a lot of weight to that.

  Tim Foreman

  Breathing, Class, Alive

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• I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

  James Packer

  Thinking, Class, Chinese

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• Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, World, Making Money

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• Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One

  Evan Tanner

  Believe, Greatness, World

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• People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.

  Joe Greene

  People, World, Care

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• Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

  Joe Greene

  Impact, Direct Action, Empowering

  "New Facebook Changes Will Help You Change the World" by Joe Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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