When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class. " I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing. " I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.
Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
life is a succession of readjustments.
It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.
You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
You and I are going to change the world.
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.
It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only 'body' and 'mind'. Man's unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No belief can be higher than the scientific truths! Man can be born, can walk and work and can think without owning a mysterious and an immaterial soul! The soullessness of the man is a great tragedy both for the man and for the religion. But Man, contrary to the religion, will come out with triumph from this tragedy.
The next adventure is the government, a government of change.
If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Whatever the era. . . one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.