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“You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.”

I Can Reality Past Deals Picks Touched Can't Change Can't Change The Past

Author:Paul Mooney

“I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Certain Force Process Cities Accepting Our Lives Ten Draws Chaos Can't Change Randomness Weighing Unpredictability

Author:Frank Gehry

“I can't change the world, but I'm hoping that what I say and do will inspire everyone to try.”

World Trying I Can Inspire Changing The World Can't Change

Author:Tablo

“The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.”

Asks Situation Lord Oneself Our Lord Can't Change

Book:Letters to an American Lady

Source: Letters to an American Lady

“There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.”

“Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.”

People Mind Matter Running Moving Logic Innovation Developing Logical Can't Change

Author:Grace Hopper

“Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.”

People Want Firsts Looks May Helping Able Chance Photography Photograph Can't Change

Author:Lynn Johnston

“Even if you Can't Change the World, you Can Change Individuals”

Ifs World Individual Changing The World Can't Change

Author:Dan Howell

“You can't change music by yourself.”

Can't Change

Author:Johnny Ramone

“Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.”

Past Cutting Effects Yesterday Bitterness Can't Change Cords Umbilical Cord

Author:Lee Ezell

“If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.”

Ifs Life Change Attitude Life Changing Things Change Can't Change Change Your Attitude

Author:Ingrid Weir

“Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!”

World Trying Change Serious Changing The World Can't Change Trying To Change Toothbrushes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.”

Change Fate Can't Change

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You can not change the past but you can change the future.”

Past Can Not Can't Change Letting Go And Moving On You Can't Change The Past Can't Change The Past

Author:Immortal Technique

“Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.”

Feels Happens Next Class Middle Havens Extremes Versions Middle Class Retirement Republic Transition Can't Change Bananas Panama Tacky Makeovers

Author:Andrew Evans

“I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.”

Trying I Can Past Can't Change Better Future Can't Change The Past

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.”

Can Do Accepting Best Things Can't Change

Author:Guy Wilson

“It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that.”

People Ifs Way Persons Important Political Evil Differences Groups Like You Criticism Productive Can't Change Political Groups

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your earlobe. You can change your name. You can move to a different continent. But you cannot change who your parents were, and who your siblings are, and who your children are.”

Children Different Moving Names Parent One Thing Our Children Rings Your Children Over You Continents Tattoo Sibling Can't Change Grapefruit

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.”

People Ifs Levels Educated Status Quo Can't Change

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.”

People Can't Change Systems Change

Author:Jack Canfield

“On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.”

World Humans Hands Human Beings Existence Useless Changing The World Poetry Is Being Human Can't Change Human Existence

Author:Bei Dao

“Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.”

Different States Helping Support Poet Depends University China Finance Can't Change

Author:Bei Dao

“You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.”

People World Years Persons Records Seeing Industry Meetings Zone Can't Change Seeing The World

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two”

Two Feelings Can't Change

Author:David Berman

“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”

Ideas Things Change Can't Change Fresh Ideas

Author:James Hillman

“Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people.”

People Ifs Way Mean Book Feelings Millions Written Easier Remains Dollars Advertising Shelves Can't Change Adapting

Author:Jonathan Tropper

“You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.”

Ifs Universe Literature Destiny Path Middle Car Fronts Brown Passive Pulling Our Destiny Changing Your Life Your Destiny Can't Change Trajectory Bumper

Author:Tommy McCarthy

“People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.”

People Ifs Knows Way Mind Firsts Book Certain Audience Can't Change You Can't Change People Can't Change People

Author:Thom Andersen

“I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.”

Ifs Trying Made I Can Hard Found Sex Cutting Hard Work Angry Busy Made It Too Busy Can't Change Short Cuts

Author:Ruba Nadda

“But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.”

Thinking Young Bits Honest Possibility Being Honest Fixed Immortal Disturbing Limitless Can't Change Inventing Invincible

Author:Damien Hirst

“The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.”

World May Law Prayer Perfect This World Concerned Supreme Damn Fake Can't Change

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.”

World Trying Littles Bits Awareness Little Bit Charity Changing The World Can't Change

Author:Naomi Campbell

“We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.”

Moon Harmony Tides Can't Change Ripple

Author:Germaine Greer

“You can't change when you're defensive.”

Can't Change

Author:George Kohlrieser

“You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.”

People Want Middle Old People Can't Change Middle Aged

Author:Kathy Acker

“You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.”

Want Firsts Past Can't Change You Can't Change The Past Can't Change The Past

Author:Pat Benatar

“We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.”

Knows Happenings Can't Change New Friends Lonesome

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.”

Stills Language English Language Can't Change

Author:Bruno Zheng Wu

“I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.”

Way Feels Should Has Beens I Can Three Can Do Taken Prove Should Have Should Have Been Can't Change Prove Myself

Author:Clinton Portis

“I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.”

I Can Can't Change

Author:Carlos Beltran

“I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.”

Way I Can Play Get Better Can't Change

Author:Adrian Beltre

“You can't change your game based on where you're playing.”

Games Can't Change

Author:Troy Glaus

“People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.”

People Ifs Way Want Looks Kind Persons I Can Hanging Out Look At Me Can't Change Kind Person

Author:Sebastian Janikowski

“You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.”

Ifs Book Can't Change Where You Come

Author:Sarah Addison Allen

“If you can't change your surroundings, change your hair color.”

Ifs Color Hair Surroundings Can't Change

Author:Brittany Murphy

“You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.”

Moving Worry Happened Like You Keep Moving Can't Change

Author:Bernie Mac

“Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.”

People Ifs Want Found Changed Motivated Good People Can't Change

Author:Jim Rohn

“If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it.”

Ifs Attitude Situation Can't Change Change Your Attitude

Author:Abraham Low

“Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.”

People Way Mind Has Beens Running Adults Harder One Way Pathways Can't Change

Author:Howard Gardner

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