Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster.


David Attenborough

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I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live ...
JUDY BLUME
Dont change urself to make someone yours.Be as u are that will deal with yourself.
SHUBHAM CHAVAN
Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE
I think of that as a swap. His ascension to the court ... would not change things.
GOODWIN LIU
Why should things have to change? People go after Christianity ... It's almost Christianity as a sco...
DAVID HANSHAW
I don't really think we should change a lot. We see guys like that every day in practice.
DONTE WHITNER
Leave my image alone, ... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.
EZER WEIZMAN
Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.
EZER WEIZMAN
We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and dont ...
ROBERT ATWELL
We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER
Things do not change; we change.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Trying to change things we can't is as frustrating as accepting things we can.
JIM GENOVESE
I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons.
DONALD TRUMP
Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.
SHANNON ELIZABETH
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ
As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions...
CAMPBELL BROWN
Do you think people change? I meant ourselves — do we change?
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about ...
GIANCARLO ESPOSITO
And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to ma...
VANESSA KERRY
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
ELON MUSK
In every way, this is a model of how things should change.
ANDRES DUANY
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then creat...
SETH GODIN
I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I ma...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some st...
HASKELL WEXLER
Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.
JOAN KONNER
Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR
I think we changed about as much as you can possibly change, so there's a lot to learn.
WILL HERRING
As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, ...
LAURA MARANO
I don't think we need government to tell us we need a change. We need customers to tell us we need a...
CHARLIE THOMAS
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own inter...
ORSON WELLES
Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mea...
NEIL GAIMAN
As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
DAVE MORRIS
I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks...
BRIAN SKERRY
why should we feel ashamed of what has happend ,,,, we didnt ask for it ,,, are abuser forced it upo...
GRACE
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like...
PETER F. DRUCKER
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything t...
MARTIN BUBER
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
I'm a change agent trying to change the way pharmacists might have to think in such an emergency sit...
WARREN WINSTON
Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and mov...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an ino...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL
They insisted on two things. 'Don't impersonate Coward. And never change his words.' I think we met ...
DAVID IRA GOLDSTEIN
They insisted on two things, ... 'Don't impersonate Coward. And never change his words.' I think we ...
IRA GOLDSTEIN
We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Chan...
DANIEL SUAREZ
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that ...
STEVE WOZNIAK
Things yet unknown will change the way you think.
TOBA BETA
Any new thing -- as long as it is safe and sound and provides results -- I think it's good, because ...
BOB GREENE
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST
I think the change we've seen is a sea change and it will be a several-year change versus several we...
ALAN SNYDER
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things we can do to change other people’s lives will change our lives and it will change our c...
ANIL GUPTA
They are not engaging in honorable business practices. I think we have to let them know things have ...
LINDSAY GRAHAM
You do see things instantly as they change.
DAVID HALL
Things do not change, we do.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go wh...
ALEX CAMPBELL
I think the military would benefit by a change in civilian leadership, but I think it's important th...
MARTHA RAINVILLE
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things.
I don't know what to say about this game, but we as coaches realize we've got to change some things,...
BRAD HARRIS
In democracy to avoid corruption, we change presidents every eight years. We should change the senat...
BETA METANI' MARASHI
As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS
Everybody has different feelings and I think that ... our definitions of love and marriage and honor...
JULIA ROBERTS
I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
MANOLO BLAHNIK
We, as human can almost change anything even the world but we cannot change a person's attitude
KIM HOTH
At some point in our existence, we all wanted things in our lives as it is and we didn't want it to ...
KIM SEGURA ENCARNACION
To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.
SUZY KASSEM
As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we ac...
SAUL ALINSKY
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST
Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the v...
EMMA THOMPSON
We don't think that a change is needed.
WASIM BARI
Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at thi...
FRANCIS CHAN
We should not be afraid of change, we should return to the old ideas.
ALEX TURNER
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to...
STEPHEN COVEY
I don't think we change our offense. We are what we are.
DARRELL BEVELL
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR
When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all coll...
GATES MCFADDEN
For things to change, YOU'VE got to change, otherwise, nothing much will really change.
JIM ROHN
Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
MAHESH BABU
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own se...
MAHAVIRA
I think we are coming to a place where real change is possible.
DEBORAH DENNO
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
It's not going to be easy to change things.
DANIEL BERRIGAN
The point of the essay is to change things.
EDWARD TUFTE
We've run into a few snags, but if things don't change, I think we're going to be on track.
DENNIS RICHARDS
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion...
SEAN O'CASEY
Things may change tomorrow. There's always room for change.
BOB BRADY
Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. No...
SUZY KASSEM
Our team hasn't performed the way it should. We needed to do something. I think the fans in Sacramen...
JOE MALOOF
I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a ...
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
LIANE MORIARTY
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. B...
VANILLA ICE
If we were to see an abrupt change in exchange rates, we might expect there might be some change in ...
EDWARD LAZEAR
You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
ETHAN EMBRY
We think the market will change quite a bit.
BILL HARDEKOPF
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
PILGRIMS
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
PEACE PILGRIM

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The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
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Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY
I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY
People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY
The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE
The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE