Changing The World Quotes - Page 22

• I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  World, Want

  Song: I Don't Want To Change The World

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• I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Hard Work, Blessing, Secret

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• Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Ocean, Pyramids, Tiny

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Long, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Talking, Should Have

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

  Carol Ross Barney

  World, Stuff

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, World, Universe

  Source: medium.com

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• What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting.

  Barack Obama

  People, Shrinking, World

  Source: time.com

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• There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something together....We have to know our limits, I don't have the pretense I can change the world. And I don't want to set up events [to raise money]. Because what happens if the following year they don't have an event, they won't eat?

  Franca Sozzani

  Thinking, Years, Together

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, World, Should

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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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, Ability To Change

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, People, World

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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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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• Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the sciences, some of which they might be able to use for their purposes. That's why workers education, including science and mathematics, has commonly been a concern of left intellectuals.

  Noam Chomsky

  Should Have, Understanding, Wish

  Source: libcom.org

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• What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.

  Danny Glover

  Important, Doe, World

  Source: progressive.org

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• The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

  Randy Newman

  Girl, Fashion, World

  "Randy Newman's first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin". Interview with Geoff Edgers, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Reading, Childhood

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, although that's so crazy. That's just delusional. But I recognize that it's crazy. It will be a little dinky change.

  Carolyn See

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  Viola Davis

  Wall, People, Giving

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.

  Ken Moelis

  Wall, Technology, Critical Decisions

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Peaceful, World, Persons

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

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• I feel like having a positive attitude in life is going to change the world. If we could all have a good attitude, we could really make a change.

  Bianca Balti

  Attitude, World, Life Is

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.

  Jason Silva

  Couple, Communication, Technology

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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