Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.
All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse. " Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution. ' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.
I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.
I was never an ingénue at any point in my career. I was hoping that whatever I was bringing to the table, it wasn't some physical attribute that would change or fade over time.
When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation. . . they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
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.
I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.
I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.
I am in the world to change the world.