Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: change

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

A change of environment is pretty refreshing.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

North Korea cannot change because its people don't realize that there is an alternative to their suffering.

You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Social change comes through people.

Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.

You must change in order to survive.

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.

It's normal in a top club that people change.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.

Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I don't think people change.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.