Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day. – Barack Obama
One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle – an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away. – Candice Olson
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. – Alan Cohen
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change. – Andreas Schleicher
I’m in politics to change things – if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples’ sandcastles. – Boris Johnson
Most people don’t want to change. They’re comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that’s something that’s very necessary for us to improve as a country. – Colin Kaepernick
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world. – Aung San Suu Kyi
I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on. – Amy Jo Johnson
I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit. – Bastian Schweinsteiger
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can’t have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change. – Ari Graynor
It’s a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady’s mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person. – Amitabh Bachchan
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world. – Bill Owens
Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference. – Brian Skerry
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. – Alice Walker
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. – Cy Twombly
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that’s what’s important to us. – Bon Scott
I don’t allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think. – Britney Spears
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. – Annie Lennox
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation – and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work. – Andy Stern
Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation’s self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition – and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form. – Cass Sunstein
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. – Andrzej Wajda
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it. – Beth Ditto
In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally. – Christina Aguilera