C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.”
“Changing sircumstance to another is difficult and strange for humans, but if there is patience, everything would be normal.”
“Changing someone’s core before we can accept them is not love. Is it?”
Source: As Night Falls
“Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?”
“Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.”
“Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change”
“Changing the clouds changes the ground radiation levels.”
“Changing the color of your chain does not mean you are free; it means you are okay with your bondage.”
“Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.”
“Changing the currents of Fate, even by accident, comes at a heavy price.”
Source: Rain of Ash
“Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.”
Source: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
“Changing the family given name to a Sanskrit based name, doesn't make a person either free or holy - by doing so, one only exchanges one prison for another.”
“Changing the form of one's mission's almost as difficult as changing the shape of one's nose: there they are, each, in the middle of one's face and one's character--one has to begin too far back.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Changing the game is a mindset.”
“Changing the land is shaping the future. In a sense, a bulldozer is a time machine.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.”
“Changing the social order in one fell swoop, Henry Gerber wrote in 1940, is “like trying to push over a big stone wall with your skull.” It can’t be done. But “we can undermine the wall by little individual blasts and it will topple down by-and-by.” Or, as Del Shearer said in 1965, social revolution required at least “a century of subtle attack” on the dominant culture.
As riots engulfed the United States in 1968, Frank Kameny saw similarities between homophiles and those Black Americans taking to the streets to express centuries of anger. “BUT,” Kameny said, “the Negro has truly explored and exhausted well-neigh, if not actually all, other avenues, and has gotten to the firm, unyielding stone wall of prejudice which blocks them. WE have run into this, but have not yet reached the end of all avenues.”
Queer people soon hit the end of all avenues, crashing into an unyielding stone wall.”
Source: We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation
“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business – all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement.”
Source: Prescription: Treating India's Soul
“Changing the story until you believe it.”
“Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.”
“Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”
“Changing the way LGBTQ individuals
with chronic or life-limiting illnesses are cared for requires a paradigm shift in the way we (collectively, as health care professionals) approach the conversation about what it means to be inclusive in our compassion. You don’t need to change your religious or moral beliefs to provide good care to LGBTQ individuals.”
Source: LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice
“Changing the way someone dresses can change the way someone feels about themselves.”
Source: How to Choose a Guy in 10 Days
“Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.”
“Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.”
“Changing the way you eat is hard, but it can be done. Look at Japan.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“CHANGING THE WHEEL
I sit by the roadside
The driver changes the wheel.
I do not like the place I have come from.
I do not like the place I am going to.
Why with impatience do I
Watch him changing the wheel?”
“Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.”
“Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.”
“Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?”
“Changing the world is always difficult.”
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Changing the world is like trying to straighten a dog's tail. However much you may try, you won't succeed. But although the tail won't straighten, if you keep trying every day, at least you will put on some muscle. Similarly, even though it is difficult to make a change, our effort to do so in itself brings positive results. It will help us change. Without waiting for others to change,if we change ourselves first, that will make a difference. Instead of worrying about results, focus on doing our best in what we are engaged in.”
“Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.”
“Changing the world starts with you”
Source: Be Better: The Urgency is Now
“Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.”
“Changing the world won't make people like you. It will cause you pain. It will be difficult. It will feel like a struggle. You must accept the size of the mountain ahead of you, and start climbing it anyway.”
Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
“Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.”
“Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.”
“Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.”
“Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.”
“Changing what we think is always a sticky process, especially when it comes to religion. When new information becomes available, we cringe under an orthodox mindset, particularly when we challenge ideas and beliefs that have been “set in stone” for decades. Thomas Kuhn coined the term paradigm shift to represent this often-painful transition to a new way of thinking in science. He argued that “normal science” represented a consensus of thought among scientists when certain precepts were taken as truths during a given period. He believed that when new information emerges, old ideas clash with new ones, causing a crisis. Once the basic truths are challenged, the crisis ends in either revolution (where the information provides new understanding) or dismissal (where the information is rejected as unsound).
The information age that we live in today has likely surprised all of us as members of the LDS Church at one time or another as we encounter new ideas that revise or even contradict our previous understanding of various aspects of Church history and teachings. This experience is similar to that of the Copernican Revolution, which Kuhn uses as one of his primary examples to illustrate how a paradigm shift works. Using similar instruments and comparable celestial data as those before them, Copernicus and others revolutionized the heavens by describing the earth as orbiting the sun (heliocentric) rather than the sun as orbiting the earth (geocentric). Because the geocentric model was so ingrained in the popular (and scientific!) understanding, the new, heliocentric idea was almost impossible to grasp.
Paradigm shifts also occur in religion and particularly within Mormonism. One major difference between Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shift and the changes that occur within Mormonism lies in the fact that Mormonism privileges personal revelation, which is something that cannot be institutionally implemented or decreed (unlike a scientific law). Regular members have varying degrees of religious experience, knowledge, and understanding dependent upon many factors (but, importantly, not “faithfulness” or “worthiness,” or so forth). When members are faced with new information, the experience of processing that information may occur only privately. As such, different members can have distinct experiences with and reactions to the new information they receive.
This short preface uses the example of seer stones to examine the idea of how new information enters into the lives of average Mormons. We have all seen or know of friends or family who experience a crisis of faith upon learning new information about the Church, its members, and our history. Perhaps there are those reading who have undergone this difficult and unsettling experience. Anyone who has felt overwhelmed at the continual emergence of new information understands the gravity of these massive paradigm shifts and the potentially significant impact they can have on our lives. By looking at just one example, this preface will provide a helpful way to think about new information and how to deal with it when it arrives.”
Source: Joseph Smith's Seer Stones
“Changing with time feels beautiful. But when someone forces you to change, it feels suffocating.”
“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species.”
Source: The Inferior
“Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.”
“Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.”
“Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.”
“Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.”
“Changing your environment won’t change your mindset, but changing your mindset will change your environment.”