Don't Change Quotes - Page 3

• Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don’t change. They existed, and that’s all there is to it.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sunset, Feeling Down, Feelings

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.181, Melville House

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• You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

  Alex Steffen

  Inspirational, Hair, Humanity

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.

  Randy Pausch

  Real, Science, People

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• I wish i could change my mind
  as easily as I change socks
  But then I don't change socks so easily

  Francesca Woodman

  Mind, Wish, Don't Change

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• Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. [...] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

  Billy Joel

  Love, Fashion, Hair

  "Just the Way You Are". Song by Billy Joel, 1977.

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• Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.

  Victor Pelevin

  Names, World, Problem

  Victor Pelevin (2008). “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• [Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, America

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

  Terry Brooks

  Character, Four, Want

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• Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.

  Alex Riley

  Monday, Kids, Night

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• People don't change just because you know more about them.

  Jasper Fforde

  People, People Don't Change, Don't Change

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime”, p.261, Penguin

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• We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don’t change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.

  James Turrell

  Thinking, Color, Sky

  "Roden Crater". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

  Itzhak Perlman

  Couple, Paris, People

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• Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Change, Thinking, Order

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• I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Change, Song, Play

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• Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

  Andy Garcia

  Change, First Impression, Firsts

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• That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Successful, Funny Things, People

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• Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Giving Up, Lying, Generosity

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• If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

  Bill Hybels

  Schedules, Don't Change, Persons

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• Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

  Leonard Sweet

  Simple, Scary, Don't Change

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.73, Zondervan

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• Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!

  Zoe Kravitz

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Simple, Opposites, Names

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

  Tony Robbins

  Heart, Sleep, Skills

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  World, Firsts, Don't Change

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• Water has always been something that I care deeply about, and I'm very aware of its limits on this planet. If we don't change our behavior around water, water will become as valuable as oil. That is a given. When people don't understand that, I'm surprised.

  Alysia Reiner

  Oil, People, Water

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• What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Fashion, Icons, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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