Changing The World Quotes - Page 27

• Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Inspiration, Forever

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.197, Aum Publications

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• I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Weakness, World

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.265, Granta Books

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• But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine

  Jack Johnson

  Smile, World, Busy

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• Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

  David Nicholls

  Differences, World, Courageous

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Book

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 09, 2016

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• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Party, Struggle, Book

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took to provide for your family. That was important to me. You have to understand that back then, a lot of people our age wanted to change the world. Even though it's a noble idea, I knew I wanted something more traditional. I wanted a family like my parents had, and I wanted to concentrate on my little corner of the world. I wanted someone who wanted to marry a wife and a mother, and someone who would respect my choice.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mother, Ideas, People

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• Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Law, Individual Choice

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, World, Revolution

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• There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

  Orson Scott Card

  Inspirational, World, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.90, Macmillan

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• This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Opportunity, Simple

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• The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

  David Nicholls

  Art, Life Changing, Hard Work

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• Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

  Arthur Miller

  Drama, Technique, World

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.432, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

  James Jones

  Years, World, Littles

  James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1090, Open Road Media

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• So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

  Jack Layton

  Optimistic, Hopeful, World

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

  Gerard Way

  Kings, Hate, Self

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• The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

  Joss Whedon

  Different, World

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

  Brother Yun

  God, Christian, Religious

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.3, Hendrickson Publishers

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• All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

  Vera Nazarian

  Responsibility, Knowing, Stories

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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• Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, World, Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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• I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Knowing, People, Curiosity

  Interviews from Reddit's "ask me anything" forums, www.reddit.com. December 17, 2011.

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• You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, World, Language

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• For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ideas, Superhero, World

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• Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Heart, Artist

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.409, Random House

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