Making Changes Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.

  Wally Byam

  Improvement

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• The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think that our script is the bible. We want to make sure that the story is told, that you stick to the story but if you have to make changes to the character then that's fine. A lot of times there are some funny one-liners, funny things that happen that are out of the ordinary. I like it.

  Todd Farmer

  Character, Thinking, Funny Things

  Source: collider.com

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• People thought it was asinine for me to change my swing after I won the Masters by 12 shots. ... Why would you want to change that? Well, I thought I could become better. If I play my best, I'm pretty tough to beat. I'd like to play my best more frequently, and that's the whole idea. That's why you make changes. I thought I could become more consistent.

  Tiger Woods

  Swings, Play, Ideas

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• You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

  David Shore

  People, Too Late, Asking

  Source: collider.com

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Duty, Tolerable

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• I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.

  Jennifer Beals

  People, Not Good Enough, Painful

  "City's Best" Interview, citysbest.com, February 4, 2011.

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• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

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• Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Appeals, Customers

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• I really love working with brands that are either at the cutting-edge, or are making that first step towards making change within their brand lines.

  Summer Rayne Oakes

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• If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

  Liya Kebede

  Powerful, Trying, Ordinary

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• My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.

  Thomas Merton

  Change, Money, Men

  Thomas Merton (1999). “Mystics and Zen Masters”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I was going through so many changes in my life - separation with my wife, having an affair - that was all very messy and public. It felt like if I really wanted to rock my boat and make changes in my life and who I am and how I am, that would also mean moving on from Cheers.

  Ted Danson

  Cheer, Moving, Mean

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

  India.Arie

  Responsible, Ifs

  Source: www.tv.com

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• Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."

  Brandon Marshall

  Cutting, Rocks, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

  Marco Rubio

  Cuba, Said, Relation

  Source: www.univision.com

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• We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

  Mike Pence

  War, Obamacare, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• If anybody can make a change it's the rappers.

  Rakim

  Rapper, Ifs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I just try to enjoy the moment and enjoy what's happening. I mean, I want to be conscious of what's going on around me, and be aware of if I can make a change and make things better, which I think is very important.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Mean, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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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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