Dramatic Change Quotes

• With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Cities, Long

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• Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience. How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Teaching

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 03, 2015

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• Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Yoga, Thinking, Body

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• A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

  Varg Vikernes

  Children, Men, Wife

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Law, Climate

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• Yes, we're in a protectionist era because when you have lack of domestic growth, everybody tries to unload the problem on foreigners with protectionism, devaluations, cutbacks on imports. But is there going to be a dramatic change? TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

  Gary Shilling

  Growth, Trying, Eras

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• For decades, Colombia has been accused of being the world's principal provider of cocaine. If this comes to an end, it would be a dramatic change for our country - which has been suffering more than any other from the consequences of drug-trafficking.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Drug, Suffering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.

  Ladyhawke

  Girl, Thinking, Towns

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Keys, Innovation, Dramatic

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Business, Guarantees That, Healthy

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• I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.

  Jello Biafra

  Wise, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Taught Us, Self

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• Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Couple, Attitude, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

  Philip Levine

  Dramatic, Imagine, Seventies

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision.

  George Carlin

  Nice, Feel Better, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.

  Anthony D. Barnosky

  Two, Worry, Way

  Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.27, Island Press

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• Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Opposites, Development, World

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

  Frank Robinson

  Baseball, Running, Home

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

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• It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Choices, Wake Up, May

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Dramatic

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners who own older models? That’s a different story. If you have an iPad 2, 3 or 4, the new Air 2 will make a big difference. Its thinness and lightness will be a dramatic change, and it will be faster and more fluid. However, here’s the catch: Upgrading to last year’s iPad Air would have pretty much the same effect, and that model is now, suddenly, $100 cheaper, starting at $399.

  Walt Mossberg

  Air, Average, Years

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• Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

  Anthony Holden

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

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• My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Ideas, Our World

  "The Turning Point". Book by Fritjof Capra, www.juwing.sp.ru. 1982.

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• It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Giving Up, Justice, Earth

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