3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.
3 December 2020 Michelle Obama I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate to offset global warming – is a nightmare fix for climate change.
3 December 2020 Edward James Olmos I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
3 December 2020 Jackie Chan I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.
3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
3 December 2020 Calvin Klein There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion they’re not afraid of it.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
3 December 2020 John Steinbeck Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for “dangerous” climate change.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
3 December 2020 Andrew Mason I think if there’s any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it’s that I’ve been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what’s expected.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I’m still not comfortable, but that’s why I change and adapt the way I look.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.
3 December 2020 Wynton Marsalis Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
3 December 2020 David Bailey I like change. There’s something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.