Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power – every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe – is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
I think we can only ultimately change the world by example and by fearlessly embracing what could happen.
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.
The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came – in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree – I was ready.
Thrilled to be part of this new project Generation Nature and just encouraging kids to change the world.
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.
Extrinsic motivations are like, ‘I wanna get rich, I wanna be famous.’… Even missionary ones like, ‘I wanna change the world with this idea.’… That’s an extrinsic motivation. And when things are hard, you’re going to be like, oh why am I doing this?
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist’s life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.
It takes more than a hashtag to change the world.
That taught me one lesson which is that you’re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.
Art is not meant to change the world.
It’s time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
The things that make us unique, the things that make us different, the sometimes unique positions we’re in our calling. By sticking true, we can ultimately do something that can change the world for the better.
You never know who you’re talking to. Don’t limit a young student’s dream, because that’s how we change the world.
I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.
Both EarthEcho and Seventh Generation understand that young people have the power to change the world – one home, one school and one community at a time.
Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can’t just call the shots and expect change.
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
‘The Ugly Truth’ isn’t trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it’s just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!
You’re going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You’ll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
As a young Maori actor, I don’t want to be seen as a child star; I want to be seen as a serious actor and an actor who can change the world.
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we’ve got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, ‘Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.’
I’m a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that’s good enough.
It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world – again?
The first We Day celebration I attended was in Vancouver, and it was the most incredible experience – there is nothing more invigorating than a buzzing room of young people who are excited to change the world.
Being able to change the world and change hearts and minds – it’s uplifting.
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling… I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that’s why I went to America. I didn’t intend to stay.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The Democratic Party has been my party over 50 years, where I waged my battle to change America and change the world from its progressive wing.
When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn’t really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.
Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.
Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.
Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
I can’t write about nice, easy topics because that won’t change the world. And I do want to change the world – one reader at a time.
Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic – you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn’t always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don’t.
My whole goal is to heal the entire planet. People say, ‘I want to change the world.’ You can change the world for better or for worse. I want to heal the whole world like a superhero would do.
You realize you can’t change the world but it shouldn’t stop you from trying.
I want to help people and change the world.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it’s the death of magazines.
If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.
I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world – I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.
At Apple, we believe that people with passion can change the world.
