Changing The World Quotes - Page 29

• I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

  E. B. White

  Success, Morning, Determination

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Badass, Mean, Bad Ass

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• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Writing, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Men, World

  Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr

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• We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

  Hannah Arendt

  World, Something New

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Ignorance, Discovery, World

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• One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

  Thom Yorke

  Two, People, World

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• I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

  George Strait

  Country, Trying, World

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• Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Exercise, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jun 26, 2013

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• The only way to change the world is to change yourself.

  Sarah Susanka

  World, Way, Change Yourself

  Sarah Susanka (2007). “The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters”, p.38, Random House

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• Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the writer. If what I write is good, then people will read it. That’s why literature exists. An author puts his heart and guts on the page. For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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• A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

  Luis Bunuel

  Essentials, Alive, World

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• I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, World, Proud

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• We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Hands, Differences

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Men, Thinking

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• I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

  Curt Schilling

  Cancer, Skins, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "Hannity" with Rich Lowry, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Buddhism

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• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

  Zainab Salbi

  Inspirational, Change, Risk

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• If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

  Peter Block

  Inspirational, Change, Impact

  Peter Block (2013). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest”, p.94, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

  Katie Davis

  Girl, Christian, Jesus

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Thought Provoking, Way

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• So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.

  Daniel Goldin

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

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