I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. – Gillian Anderson
I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. – David Sedaris
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action. – Francis Chan
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Denis Waitley
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. – Enya
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It’s my job to always change people’s minds. I’ve known that for a long time and I’ve had to do it. – Dylan McDermott
I can’t listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I’m so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice. – Michael Angarano
What I’m trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn’t matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It’s a mindset. – Najib Razak
What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation – but I’m not sure it actually has. I’m not sure there’s been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper. – Fergus Henderson
Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something. – Greg Rucka
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. – Eckhart Tolle
I don’t know if there’s any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There’s no change more dramatic. – Eric Dane
I’ve never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things. – Don Cheadle
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher. – Marilyn Ferguson
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don’t have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples. – Edmund Phelps
There’s a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I’ve got my specialist subject – in the Mastermind sense – and I wouldn’t change it, or who I am. – Chris Ofili
The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism. – Craig L. Thomas
The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change. – Najib Razak
The thing about it is, I’m one of these people that if you’re not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions. – Paul Gosar
I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don’t believe in. If you believe in the third party, that’s the guy you need to voice for. That’s how you change things. – Gary Johnson
Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less. – Debbie Ford
There’s no question that, um, you know, the oceans have risen, right? And the climate change part is, is a real part of it. – Michael Grimm
I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don’t like me, I will obsess over it – and try to change my personality until they like me – even if they don’t like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they’re strangers. – Damon Lindelof
It’s a disease of critics that once they’ve labeled someone, it’s very hard to change their perspective. It’s laziness. – Michael Haneke
It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it. – Gordon Bethune
With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change. – Elizabeth Warren