Making Changes Quotes - Page 12

• The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

  Lewis E. Platt

  Business, Real, Successful

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• I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

  David Bowie

  Change, Causes

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• Don't make excuses! Make changes!

  Tony Gaskins

  Excuse

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2016

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• Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

  Michael Jackson

  Together We Can, Racism, Prejudice

  "Flashback: Michael Jackson's speech to Exeter City back in 2002" by Ronaldo Assis De Moreira, bleacherreport.com. June 26, 2009.

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• People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

  Ricardo Semler

  People, Should, Standards

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• There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Yesterday, Giving

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• Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Sorry

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

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• You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

  Brian Tracy

  Choices, Today, Your Future

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 09, 2013

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

  Seth Godin

  Absorbing

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• A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.

  Esther Earl

  Strong, Half, World

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• In the end I have to hold myself accountable...I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.

  Kara Goucher

  Goal, Ends, Situation

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

  Sandra Cisneros

  World, Littles, Matter

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• I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.

  Katy Perry

  "Katy Perry: Hard Candy". www.elle.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

  Lois Lowry

  Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words

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• Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the future, to be conscious is to be with an experience as it’s unfolding, rather than thinking about how we would like to change it. Taking charge of our life so that we alter the quality of our experiences in the future comes after an experience.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Running, Thinking, Wish

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• I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Princeton, Ability

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

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• When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Dream, Kids, Ideas

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

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• The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.

  Mark Waid

  Editors, Creative, Guy

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• We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.

  Steve Burton

  Opportunity, Fda, People

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• Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Hard Times, Order

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• Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Duty, Tolerable

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• But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Drawing, Want, Stills

  "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

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