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People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.


Eleanor Clift

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It would be too much of a culture change for them not to. We just want to do what's reasonable.
MARILYN POLLACK The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
MAX LERNER Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.
SHANNON L. ALDER I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
TAYLOR SWIFT We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have to ch...
ALEX ADAMS We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have to ...
ALEX ADAMS We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the conten...
DANIEL GREENBERG Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what mak...
RODOLFO COSTA It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the ...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN Not as much is going to change as people might think.
JEFF KLEINTOP You want a straight change-up that has the same spin as a fastball. You actually want the hitter to ...
BILL BRYK As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER u...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY We're pretty sure we can't change the venue. We're not naive. But we want to change it for future st...
BRIAN SPARKS Far too often, we want God to change our circumstances rather than God to change us. This should not...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must....
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, an...
MITCHELL BAKER Yeah, I think that's the business model we mostly believe in. There could be things that come along ...
PATRICK HUDSON You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Often, people think, 'To get real balance, I'd have to radically change my life.' And that's not pra...
KURT SANDHOLTZ I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spi...
DALAI LAMA She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt.
LAWRENCE WELK You know the adage “People resist change.” It is not really true. People are not stupid. People ...
RONALD A. HEIFETZ My temptation is not the temptation to change - but to change for the worst.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Feelings never change it's just that every one changes so gradually that we don't even notice how mu...
ANDONI GARCIA My people are voting for change. Fifty-two percent of people agree that it is time for a change.
BORRIS MILES The change in the balance of risks keeps the market focused on conditions in the corporate bond mark...
GEMMA WRIGHT People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa...
VANESSA HUDGENS Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change f...
HENRY PETROSKI There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE You can't pay too much attention to what this one publication says, but people do read these ranking...
JAMES OWENS I think every staff thinks that. Everyone thinks, 'Hey, we're going change these guys. We're going t...
FRED GRAVES The tricky part of the human journey is to transform ourselves continually as our life directions ch...
DONNA L. FRIESS What people resist is not change per se, but loss.
RONALD A. HEIFETZ More than likely, that number is not going to change much,
BILL BELL We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and dont ...
ROBERT ATWELL For things to change, YOU'VE got to change, otherwise, nothing much will really change.
JIM ROHN At this point, even additional snow or a light rain would not change it too much.
GREG GUST For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confid...
NIDO QUBEIN This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker mus...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL You're talking about something that would be a major, major change. Right now, there is good balance...
COMMISSIONER DENNIS ACKERMAN We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and don’...
ROBERT ATWELL The people want a change. I'm really positive that they are going to be happy with this change.
DONNA CULTEE People chose change. They thought the Alliance represented that change, and I want to salute the new...
EDUARDO DUHALDE People change. Young people don't cook as much as they used to. They want quick food. They don't buy...
BILLY LEONARD I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways...
MARILYN MONROE In other words, I want closer relations too, but I am uncomfortable with this particular change,
LEONARD SPECTOR Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
JOHN WALTERS Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't wa...
MEG RYAN You can change technology all you want, but you can't change people. Average folks still want to wat...
ANDY PARSONS Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is tra...
FRANCES HESSELBEIN Obviously there are a lot of questions and people would want to know where it would be. But it's too...
MELISSA MCHENRY We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and donÃ...
ROBERT ATWELL With every circumstance, there is grace for change.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA For the drivers, it will not change too much. I think the challenge is more for the teams and engine...
FERNANDO ALONSO A person can change but people do not.
E.R. ROCK Even in nuclear families, Christmas varies every year. People often say that they do the same thing ...
KATHLEEN COX First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known....
ANTHONY HEMINGWAY Fairness for Good Drivers is bringing the campaign for fairness and choice in auto insurance rates t...
JAMES HARRINGTON I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who e...
DARIUS RUCKER Fashion is about change and, for me, the philosophy is always the same ... that the clothes have to ...
CALVIN KLEIN Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
NIKKI SIXX Whatever he had found, it made him a better person. Maybe that's what love was, finding the person w...
DIANA HOLQUIST The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
MORRIS K. UDALL We can't change anything that doesn't want to change.
PETER STROPLE I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ...
MARILYN MONROE It was an experience not too many people ever have (and) we got a little chunk of change, too.
LORI GRIMES We have free wills. I don't want to change people's paths, I want people to change their own paths. ...
DARLENE GUSTOVICH You can't change people but you can make people do a change.
HANNANI HUSNA MARZUKI We can not change the world, because we simply do not want to change ourselves.
VICTOR WERNET This is a real nervy deal here. Things change instantly. Imagine trying to find clean drinking water...
BILL HOWELL When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.
ABBY NORMAN All of us change. Yet we change one another everyday everywhere. Destiny is man-made change. Change ...
TOMMY POLO We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is ...
JOHN KOTTER It is a really neat area, and we don't want it to change much.
DENISE SUTTON How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
LAUREN OLIVER You always want to hold things back. But the way college football is going, you'd better not hold to...
GREG DAVIS Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
DALAI LAMA People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the p...
IAN K. SMITH Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecti...
ALVIN TOFFLER Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting...
ALVIN TOFFLER It's too soon to tell if this is a market change or if it's people waiting for the weather.
DIANE SAATCHI Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change...
ANDREW CUOMO Boards and bosses may say they want change, but in fact they don't want too much disruption, controv...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding...
JOHN DEWEY It would be unreasonable to conclude this will be a permanent change. That balance is going to conti...
LORIE KESSLER I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use...
EDI RAMA change but start slowly ,direction is much important then speed..
RANA MAGDY GOD has not given me the ability to change people but rather the mandate to help them discover chang...
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
GEORGE SAVILE Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
HENRY S. COMMAGER Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER I've never been very much of what I call a politician, ... But for me to think that this is not poli...
BOB BARNETT We can't deny that there is a new political dynamic, but it is piecemeal, ... We are against this pi...
GEORGE ISHAK Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.
ROY T. BENNETT I look forward to every midnight feeding, every 3 a.m. feeding. As much as people complain about wak...
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ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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