Significant Change Quotes

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  Quincy Jones

  Country, War, Home

  Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Rain, Cereal

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• We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Two, Immigration

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• The one significant change is in fact the second significant change

  Jonathan Pearce

  Facts, Significant

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• More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Country, Gay, Issues

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• The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Sound, Climate

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Stress, Thinking, Asking

  "Curbing Nuclear Proliferation: An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei". Interview with Miles Pomper and Paul Kerr, www.armscontrol.org. October 21, 2003.

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• Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Long, Decision, Culture

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• We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

  Jeff Olson

  Two, Typical, Needs

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• You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Past, Today

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 27, 2014

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• Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation."
  "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Years, Two

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Safety, Self Love

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• The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Real, Moving

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Raw Materials, Looks

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• I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

  Paul Auster

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Economy, Driven, States

  "'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2012.

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• A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Revolution, Defining

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leader, Compromise, Reservoirs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Thinking, Administration, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  Dolores Huerta

  Running, Rainbow, Office

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

  Vince Cable

  Fundamentals, Unlikely, Produce

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• I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Couple, Fighting, Army

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

  Owen Barfield

  Community, Shifting, Moral

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

  James Morcan

  Party, Different Faces, Leader

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