Famous Quotes: Change

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
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I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
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Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
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In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
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Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
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You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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