Changing The World Quotes - Page 15

• How do we change the world? Change the story.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Stories, World

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• You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

  Beatrice Wood

  World, Change Yourself, Can't Change

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• It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.

  Michael Oh

  World, Causes, Good Causes

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• Helping others isn't a chore, it is one of the greatest gifts there is. I want to challenge the next generation of women to find a way to give back that inspires and fulfills them and weave it into their daily lives. If the next generation can learn that early on, we have a real chance to change the world.

  Liya Kebede

  Real, Helping Others, Giving

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• Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Meaningful, People, Feelings

  Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.125, Penguin

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• I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  Lorraine Hansberry (1972). “Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry”, Random House Inc

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• I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Adults, Lucky, World

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.16, Beacon Press

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• I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Fall, Government

  Thomas Southall, Walker Evans, James Agee, Friends of Photography, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (1990). “Of time & place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry”, Friends of Photography Bookstore

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• I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Political, Majority

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, War, Symphony

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.

  Tom Morello

  Government, Secret, Criminals

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Long, Together, Connections

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• I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

  Marva Collins

  World, Conformity, Motivational Leadership

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• the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

  Jessica Mitford

  Writing, Trying, May

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• You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

  Jackie Kennedy

  World, Poet

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• This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

  Susan Sarandon

  Country, Feelings, Patriotism

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• When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, World, Praying

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• It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Change, Courage

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• It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Stories, World

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.58, Penguin

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• Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

  Rick Warren

  People, World, Changed

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Sep 23, 2016

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• God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Small Steps, Calling, World

  Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.38, Harvest House Publishers

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• Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

  Leroy Hood

  World, Easy, Pursuit

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• The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.

  Ronald Takaki

  Reality, America, Principles

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• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, People, Profound

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

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