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• You think of me as a... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Thinking, Stones

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Breakup, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

  Milton Friedman

  Change, Real, Lying

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

  Michelle Obama

  Hate, Real, Diversity

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.50, PublicAffairs

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• I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours." Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Commitment

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• White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Real, Men

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• Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

  Wilbur Smith

  Real, Roots, Government

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• The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

  Arthur Smith

  Real, Perception, Painting

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Needs, World

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Times Of Crisis, Crisis

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

  William Ames

  Real, Men, Sin

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

  Seth Godin

  Real, Believe, Ideas

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• Everything I did to get back, if it wasnt for my team, it was for my city. Thats one thing that I bought into from Day One. Im not just here in this city to play football, Im here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love, then so be it. Ill give everything I have, and today was about me giving everything that I had, showing people that no matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. If you can push through it, you will encourage somebody. Today, hopefully through what I did today, somebody was uplifted.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Team, Real

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• If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.125, Profile Books

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• The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, People, Effort

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• I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.

  Jacob Liberman

  Letting Go, Real, Struggle

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.97, Harmony

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• It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Real, Responsibility

  "Sustainability is central to survival" by Jonathan Porritt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2006.

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes irreversible and out of control. A lot of progress has been made, but we must now go further, faster and turn targets into real change

  Chris Huhne

  Real, Progress, Climate

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• Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

  Drew Pinsky

  Spiritual, Real, Opinion

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• Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wall, Fun, Real

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• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices.

  Mac Thornberry

  Military, Real, Moving

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• No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Motivational, Real, Army

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• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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