I think it’s a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines – it has fashions; things change. – Sam Kean
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change. – Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. – Vaclav Klaus
I just don’t believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. – Sydney Schanberg
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it’s office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. – Tom Peters
I have been talking to a lot of people who don’t normally vote Democratic – independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it’s important to change the direction America is going. – Ted Deutch
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change. – Vir Das
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria. – William Hague
The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It’s like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you’re in trouble. – Sylvester Stallone
I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn’t happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking. – Wadada Leo Smith
The solution is to change the cake recipe, and that’s the way it is with government. We can start adopting policies that work and that encourage economic growth. If you got incentives for encouraging big business development but not small or medium business development, it’s not going to work. It needs to work for all three. – Tim Griffin
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. – Thomas Jefferson
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness. – Shari Arison
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them. – Theodore Isaac Rubin
Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes… so when an exercise is challenging, I always think ‘feel your body changing.’ – Stacy Keibler
Crisis and pressure help foster change – that’s why I’m not so pessimistic towards crises. – Wolfgang Schauble
And that’s just what I’m saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that. – Todd Solondz
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people’s lives are better, you know it’s hard, and some people think it’s boring. – William J. Clinton
I’d like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I’m older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me. – Teri Hatcher
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. – Salvatore Quasimodo
I don’t think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It’s a bad thing to do. – Ursula Burns
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. – Sting
I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that he has to change and do the most amazing work. – William Forsythe
If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it’s hard to change, like a cryptographic system or an operating system, you’re stuck. You will be vulnerable until you invest the time and money to design another system. – Whitfield Diffie
It’s nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don’t change very fast. I am one of those. – Utah Phillips
I don’t shoot two films at the same time. I finish one character and get into another character because I change my look for every film. It’s difficult, but I enjoy doing that. – Sonam Kapoor
Shouldn’t the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d’etats as a method of the change of power? – Sergei Lavrov
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. – William Irwin Thompson