“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.” LooksStillsSchoolResultsNovelProgressHeardChangedHigh SchoolHollywoodElectionProducersLife ChangingScreenwritersDrawersWishbones Author:Tom Perrotta
“Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.” FeelsFilmCoursesResultsChangedConcernedInstantDigitalConvenientFinesse Author:Graeme Le Saux
“Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.” ResultsChangedDimensionsTwistedDuality Author:Jean Giraud
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!” YearsWellsResultsProgressChangedPaintingOne DayTenYellowPalette Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.” MenGivingShouldHeartLightFightingEvilForceWishCausesSidesResultsRichChangedComfortSightFellowsContactEmploymentFlamesOppressedAwakenedTorches Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.” YearsPersonsHas BeensMadeFactsTodayLastsSimpleResultsChangedMy FamilyStrangerFedsElevenChanged My LifeLife Has Changed Author:Tony Robbins
“The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.” IfsSoulPassionResultsDestinyAliveOne ThingChangedLove PassionMoney Power Book:The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Novel Source: The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Novel
“In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.” ResultsBrainChangedEvolutionTenConnectionsAccidentsBillionsNervousOrgansPrimitiveNervous SystemNeurons Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.” ResultsRolesClearChangedDegreesConceptsElectionAlways BelieveWikileaksGeneral Elections Author:Julian Assange
“I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSeemsCertainStuffRealizingResultsChangedListeningActivityElementsEarsSettlingCompositionSeemingFiltersBeing Free Author:Peter Gabriel
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!” KnowsBookSchoolLanguageResultsClassBoysChangedEnglish LanguageEighteenPrivate School Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.” LooksStatesReasonGovernmentOrderGrowthResultsPolicyChangedTaxesGet BetterVariablesState Government Author:Arthur Laffer
“We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.” RealSelfEarthDeathFallResultsChangedSpeciesEdgesFlatsHorizonDeceptive Author:Seth
“During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.” HandsAbleJobsBeliefResultsFocusSecurityChangedEmotionalTasksCrisisFinancialExecutivesFinancial CrisisTask At Hand Author:Andrew Bernstein
“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.” IfsLongWantedFatherEasyChallengesResultsGreaterChangedProveAccountsLifestyleCompetentProve Myself Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou
“Set reasonable goals; not something vague and unrealistic like "I want to be super-model skinny." I always had visions of very thin actresses in my mind when I was at the gym and it seemed so unattainable that I would quit any health regimen before it even got off the ground. But when I changed my mindset to focusing on making the healthiest choices possible for myself, it was a lot more realistic, more attainable, and then the results were visible.” WantMindChoicesGoalResultsVisionChangedModelsMindsetActressesQuittingVisibleReasonableGymRealisticVagueSkinnyUnattainable Author:Alison Sweeney
“Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?” DifferentResultsForeverChanged Author:Seth Godin
“When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him into the wilderness to fast for 40 days and to contend with the territorial strongman over the earth, satan himself. For 40 days, Jesus warred through prayer and fasting to reverse the curse of Adam and Eve and to overcome the devil and release atomic power into the earth. The results recorded in Luke show that history changed forever through the strength and victory the Lord gained by His obedience. Divine power was now His!” ShowsEarthJesusHeavenPrayerResultsLordForeverChangedDivineVictoryDevilOvercomingReleaseObedienceCurseSatanWildernessAdamReverseFastingDoveLukeAdam And EveDivine PowerBaptizedTerritorialPrayer And Fasting Book:Digging the Wells of Revival Source: Digging the Wells of Revival
“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.” HumansSaidFoundStuffResultsMiddleCenturyChangedStandardsAverageOilFuelGasCoalFossilsHuman HistoryFossil FuelSeductiveStandards Of LivingKeynes Author:Bill McKibben
“What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.” FirstsChildrenTwoResultsFourChangedHugeOur Children Author:Gordon Lightfoot