Quotes about Wanting Change

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it. Votes: 3

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. Votes: 2

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top. Votes: 2

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to. Votes: 2

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. Votes: 2

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change. Votes: 2

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop. Votes: 2

Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work. Votes: 2

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world. Votes: 2

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. Votes: 2

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. Votes: 2

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise. Votes: 2

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain. Votes: 2

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do. Votes: 2

The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else. Votes: 2

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. Votes: 2

A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything. Votes: 2

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have. Votes: 2

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie. Votes: 2

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature. Votes: 2

As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling. Votes: 2

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top. Votes: 0

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. Votes: 0

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block. Votes: 0

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change. Votes: 0

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future. Votes: 0

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to. Votes: 0

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. Votes: 0

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. Votes: 0

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place. Votes: 0

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations. Votes: 0

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. Votes: 0

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later. Votes: 0

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city. Votes: 0

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand? Votes: 0

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that. Votes: 0