Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
We change whether we like it or not.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better. " They say, "I wanna get better. "
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.
Before change can be managed, it has to be sparked.
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low. ' We want it to read that we changed the world.
When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
People change and forget to tell each other.
Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.
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