If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn’t have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you – that’s just as amazing.
Can art change the world? Maybe… we should change the question: Can art change people’s lives?
I don’t like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I’m not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.
To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.
You change the world by being yourself.
We all have great aspirations for ourselves, but if you expect yourself to change the world tomorrow, then you’re going to just drown yourself in anxiety and constant feelings of inadequacy.
I’m a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I’m going to change the world, but with comedy.
In my theater, I’m not trying to change the world.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
I didn’t think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn’t change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I’m a real independent girl.
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
I just try to get people to laugh – I’m not trying to change the world or anything.
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art. Cinema not only heals me, but it can change the world.
Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
We’re pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
You can’t change the world; you can’t fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you’re brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world… but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.
All I want to do is change the world.
I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
The main objective – our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that’s the bigger pressure you put on yourself.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
A word is an arbitrary label – that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock?
I’m not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.
I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it – through this we can really change the world.
People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can’t change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.
I don’t want to do films for money and go back. I want to try to at least change the world through cinema, the industry, the way cinema is conceived.
We’re pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world. But there are specific areas that we get excited about – areas like hard tech, deep tech, companies that deal with really difficult technology, etc.
Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don’t deny that.
We’re not going to change the world or the music business.
We think we control our environment, but in fact, it’s our environment that controls us. We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don’t accept my circumstances.
Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love ’em. I’m a movie fan. I’m a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I’m not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.
I’m not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
Fashion really does change the world. It changes how people feel about themselves. It changes what people are comfortable with sexuality-wise. It changes how people accept themselves.
I’m not going to change the world overnight. It’s one person at a time, and hopefully they’re people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.
In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
The phrase ‘change the world’ is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of ‘early-stage investing’ and ‘beta tests.’
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders – those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay ‘transactional’ leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
There’s a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don’t give up – that should be an admirable thing – from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Miles to Ornette and some people who are not even known today – some kids coming up – people who are out to change the world.
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help ‘change the world.’ In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
You’ve really got to appreciate an artist that’s really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
