Trying To Change Quotes - Page 6

• Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested."

  Jon Gordon

  Men, Car, Trying

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• I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to look at it properly. Rather than open their mind to the possibility of seeing something, they just resist. A lot of people think contemporary art makes them feel stupid. Because they are stupid. They're right. If you have contempt about contemporary art, you are stupid. You can be the most uneducated person in the world and completely appreciate contemporary art, because you see the rebellion. You see that it's trying to change things.

  John Waters

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "Who gave John Waters the keys to the museum?". Interview with Colin Covert, www.startribune.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

  Ice Cube

  Careers, People, Trying

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• I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Beautiful, Offering, Trying

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• We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

  Libba Bray

  Regret, Clouds, Trying

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Art, Creativity

  "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame: College Course". AFP, www.independent.co.uk. November 17, 2010.

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• Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

  Lady Gaga

  Humorous, Trying, Waste

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• If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Trying

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Order, Challenges

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Trying, Feels

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• I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

  Bettie Page

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

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• To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Order, People

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• So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

  Jared Leto

  Kids, Trying, Directors

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• Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

  Guy Finley

  Flower, Cutting, Order

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• If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

  Pema Chodron

  Mind, Trying, Cool Down

  "Pema Chödrön on Buddhism". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. August 4, 2006.

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• Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Reality

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• When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

  Jane Nelsen

  Reality, Trying, Energy

  Jane Nelsen (1986). “Understanding: Eliminating Stress and Dissatisfaction in Life and Relationships”, Empowering People Books Tapes

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• When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Blessing, Space

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• We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Regret, Heart

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