Trying To Change Quotes - Page 2

• I'm trying to change the world.

  Kid Cudi

  Trying, World, Changing The World

  13 Copy quote

• On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Jobs, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  Faith Evans

  Trying, Widows, Able

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 01, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

  Mike White

  Nice, People, Challenges

  "Mike White walks us through all of Enlightened's second season (1 of 2)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 26, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're not trying to change the world; just music.

  Jonathan Davis

  Change, Trying, World

  6 Copy quote

• I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

  Rachel Maddow

  Trying, Use, World

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

  Horton Foote

  People, Mind, Trying

  Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.19, Grove Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Heart, Trying, Energy

  4 Copy quote

• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Mind, Singing, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

  Chris Messina

  Girl, People, Trying

  "Chris Messina Talks Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Argo, the Mindy Project, Damages, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 23, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Trying, World, Changing The World

  22 Copy quote

• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Strong, Trying, Change For The Better

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

  Martha Beck

  Trying, Belief, Behavior

  4 Copy quote

• The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Kings, Thinking, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

  Grover Norquist

  Change, Trying, Nastiness

  "The Great Wealth Shift Upward: Corporatists’ War on the Working Class" by Michele Swenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

  Guy Clark

  Real, Writing, Brain

  42 Copy quote

• The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

  Jo Coudert

  Circles, People, Trying

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we learn from the past is that you cannot make peace against people by interfering and - and just launching a war and trying to change a regime without any political solution. So my role is first to avoid any war and try to - to frame the discussion in order to create peace and have a comprehensive peace process and preserve unintelligible and especially in this Middle East region. That's what I tried to do in Lebanon, for instance, by negotiating both with M.B.S., with the Lebanese government.

  Emmanuel Macron

  War, Past, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it ... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.

  Beth Ditto

  Sick, Childhood, Trying

  "The insiders guide to Beth Ditto". www.cnn.com. November 24, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "‘Hunger Games’ Star Josh Hutcherson Talks Gay Attraction, Says He Doesn’t Rule It Out", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source