Changing The World Quotes - Page 38

• "Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
  "I want to be a soldier. A hero."
  "You'll grow out of it."

  Steven Erikson

  Hero, Boys, Decisions You Make

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.5, Random House

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• I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, People, Entrepreneur

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thoughtful, Doubt, Groups

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• Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Silence, World

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

  David Nicholls

  Mean, Differences, Important

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

  Alasdair Gray

  Thinking, Talking, Leader

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• We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Believe, Passion

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• You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Eagle Strike”, p.174, Penguin

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• Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

  Janette Rallison

  Powerful, Wish, World

  Janette Rallison (2011). “My Unfair Godmother”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

  Neal Shusterman

  World, Bigs, Big Questions

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

  Jean Genet

  Reflection, World, Want

  Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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• I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

  Somaly Mam

  Suffering, Trying, World

  Somaly Mam (2008). “The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.”, p.128, Spiegel & Grau

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• Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.

  Tammara Webber

  Heart, People, World

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.149, Tammara Webber

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• You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

  Isaac Marion

  Moving, Waiting, World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

  Gloria Whelan

  Book, Talking, World

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• Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Reading, Mean

  "Occupy". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2012.

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• Time was like the rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you love a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through you fingers. Cassandra Clare: What Really Happened in Peru

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Taken, Hands

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• I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Writing, People

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• There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, World, Sun

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.321, Random House

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• The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Positive, Thinking, World

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• We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a
  consequence of what we have become.

  David Hawkins

  Motivational, Positive, Spiritual

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

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

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• Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Use

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  "Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't".

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