Changing The World Quotes - Page 40

• Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Firsts, Steps

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Lying, Choices, World

  Vine Deloria, Jr. (2010). “The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men (Large Print 16pt)”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Needs, World, Today

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2011). “Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Discovering Self-Love and Miracles”, p.255, Hay House, Inc

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• Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.

  Steve Blank

  Disappointment, Stress, Team

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• Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

  Eric Ries

  World, Chance, Institutions

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• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Dreamer, Trying

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• Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

  David Geffen

  Artist, People, Trying

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• All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

  Adora Svitak

  Entrepreneur, Brain, Needs

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Political, Social Activism

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Reading, Writing, Touching

  Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo (2005). “Literacy: Reading the Word and the World”, p.12, Routledge

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• Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Book, Self

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• Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Running, Dream, People

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 09, 2014

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• If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Thinking, World

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• You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Morning, Frustration, People

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• As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Long, Mind

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• Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Two, Three

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

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• I can change the world with my own two hands

  Jack Johnson

  Hands, Two, World

  Song: With My Own Two Hands, Album: Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George, 2006

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• Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Vision, World, Hunger

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.32, Vintage

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• Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

  Brian Chesky

  Passion, People, Innovation

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• If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

  Patch Adams

  Party, Opportunity, Focus

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• We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!

  Ammon Hennacy

  Thinking, People, Here And There

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.214, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, World, Shows

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• Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.

  Neville Goddard

  People, Finding Yourself, Trying

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Mirrors, Trying

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Looks, World, May

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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