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• When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes...for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.

  Denise Linn

  Hero, Heart, Journey

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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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• People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Wonderful

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• Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

  Edward Tufte

  Years, Discussion

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• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  Victoria Moran

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  "The Wonders of ‘Prep Week’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.

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• First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Talking, Europe

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• Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.

  George Papandreou

  People, Effort, Greek

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• Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

  Jean Smart

  Opportunity, Thinking, Chance

  "Jean Smart Is Regina in Samantha Who?" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 20, 2009.

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• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  Gary McCord

  Fall, Law, Ideas

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• I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Want, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Douglas Cooper (1938). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

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

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

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

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• Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Life Lesson, Moving, Simple

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

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

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

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

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

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

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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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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• 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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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

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

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

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

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• If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.

  Steve Jobs

  Answers, Today, Lasts

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Change, Reality, Needs

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