“think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.” ThinkingForceSituationChangedBordersRegionsAfghanistanReductionNato Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.” PeopleThinkingMindWellsMadeChangedThirdsAwfulMessMiserableRepublic Author:Robert O. Paxton
“I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.” ThinkingOrderLanguageCasesInformationChangedHugeHarmonyMusicalPatternsHearingBlockCellsManipulationTransformedBaroqueBaroque MusicVivaldi Author:Mahan Esfahani
“Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.” ThinkingWayMadeStoriesFilmChangedIndustryMusic IsMusic IndustryGreat FilmJagger Author:Olivia Wilde
“Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.” ThinkingWorldPersonsStrongSidesLeaderChangedPressureDespiteBrokeBarriersProtestVery StrongBoth SidesBeing A LeaderStrong Person Author:Stephan James
“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.” PeopleThinkingMenWayDifferentRealFeltHappenedChangedHe ManArmsGayDiseaseShotsLonelyDiedAidsAtmosphereDesperateDepressingHomophobiaPassed AwayPublic Image Author:Margaret Cho
“I feel like I've always had gay fans, I don't think my dating a woman has changed my demographic, but it certainly changed the way I feel about politics.” ThinkingWayFeelsFansChangedGayDatingDemographics Author:Sia Furler
“I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.” ThinkingYearsSchoolChangedPersonality Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentShowsSongAudienceChangedPerceptionFamiliarDifferent WaysClicksI've ChangedCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanDifferentCountryMatterLastsForceBlackRaceIssuesViolenceChangedTvsCoupleRight NowConversationPhonesCellsBarackPresidencyBlack Lives MatterCell PhoneBlack LivesSabrina Author:Killer Mike
“But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.” IfsThinkingMeanIdeasDoneCausesChangedBuiltEssenceRemarkableCowsPurpleRemarksReally CoolNeatDiffusion Author:Seth Godin
“I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was thinking about all the thousands of people that live in Nashville, like myself, that there's no reason a guy from New York would end up down there if it wasn't for the sound of Earl Scruggs' banjo coming over the airwaves and just changing my life.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanEndsReasonGuySoundNew YorkChangedHonestlyLike MeNo ReasonNashvilleChanging My LifeBanjos Author:Earl Scruggs
“Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.” ThinkingWayCertainAbilityChangedPersonality Author:Rokia Traore
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.” ThinkingArtistSongTermChangedPerformancesCrowdsRapport Author:A-Trak
“It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.” ThinkingBookInterestingChanged Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.” ThinkingWayNeedsReasonWholeMightAbleBrainChangedEfficientVery HappyWay Of Thinking Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.” ThinkingFeminismChangedInternetBlogging Author:Jessica Valenti
“Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.” ThinkingWould BeAbleFiguresChangedIndiaChinaAsiaSoutheast Asia Author:Juan Enriquez
“We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.” ThinkingMenEnoughSchoolLeaderTeachTeacherPositionChangedCollegePaidEducateShortagePosition Of Power Author:John Shelby Spong
“As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.” ThinkingShowsTodayArtistPerfectChangedTelevisionIndustryInternetGood ThingsCraftsInstantYoutubeTelevision Shows Author:Olivia Newton-John
“[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.” PeopleThinkingSaidStillsTodayPartyChangedPerceptionConservativePhrasesNastyConservative Party Author:Theresa May
“The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsStatesUseHandsMightUnitedUnited StatesGroupsHavensPolicyChangedSafeAreasGoldOrganizationDollarsRussiaChinesePushingDivisionCampsCooperationCurrencyRivalsSafe HavenShanghaiImf Author:Michael Hudson
“I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsHappensChangedMachinesTreatedSexismPublicityThings Have Changed Author:Erica Jong
“Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.” ThinkingTogetherStrongFeltTeamConditionsChangedAbsolutesUnifying Author:Dominic Raab
“I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWellsHas BeensSaidMightCasesChangedHonorAgreeFranceWorld History Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.” ThinkingSchoolFeltGenerationsChangedCollegeComfortableHigh SchoolBackgroundsPrinceton Author:Samuel Alito
“I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensChangedTaughtPatternsUnnecessaryHabitual Author:Louise Hay
“I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.” ThinkingLooksLongSeemsPastDifficultUnderstandingTermChangedHappeningsLong TermShort TermTime PassesLetting Things Go Author:Moby
“Jane Goodall is my idol and someone I have always looked up to for the amazing work she has done with chimpanzees. She has transcended animal welfare as the voice for the voiceless and has changed many people's views about how they think and treat not only chimps but all of the amazing animals we share this planet with.” PeopleThinkingDoneVoiceAnimalViewsShareChangedPlanetsTreatsWelfareIdolsJaneAnimal WelfareChimpanzeesVoicelessAmazing Work Author:Katie Cleary
“My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way in which I think about the faith and life of others who are very different than myself. That mutuality of regard is how we deal with difference and diversity in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayDifferentWholeChristianDifferencesMy OwnDealsChangedDiversityRegardAppropriateWorldviewLives Of Others Author:Diana L. Eck
“Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.” ThinkingDoneAmericaGivenRaceLeaderMusicChangedPoliticianRelationHip HopCreditStatementsHipsHopsRace Relations Author:Jay-Z
“In the first place, I don`t think [Donald] Trump has changed that much from what em. I never took him serious highway this [immigration policy].” ThinkingFirstsPolicyChangedSeriousTrumpImmigrationEmsHighwaysImmigration Policy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.” ThinkingGivingYearsFirstsLittlesMadeAbleWantedGoalShareHavensChangedComfortableShotsSeasonsBallsVery GoodCreditDefenseScoreQuartersEfficientFourthOffenseHalfwayLacrosseGoaliesFourth Quarter Author:John Desko
“I was aware of it but I think I was aware of it abstractly, theoretically. You know I understood who Edward Snowden was and what he did but I didn't really see the relevance that it bore in my life and doing film changed that tune pretty quick.” ThinkingKnowsFilmChangedUnderstoodTunesBoresRelevanceSnowden Author:Zachary Quinto
“I think as an actress before I was on Twitter I thought, I'm only doing drama [and dramatic roles]... but then as soon I started tweeting it was like, "Oh you're the funny girl!"... but that was never how I saw myself. It's changed how I seem in other people's eyes.” PeopleThinkingSeemsEyeGirlRolesSawsChangedDramaActressesDramaticFunny Girl Author:Jenny Mollen
“I think there has to be a recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now, I mean, the business has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in nano seconds basically.” ThinkingKnowsMeanMadeDecisionChangedRecognitionSecondsStakesNano Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.” ThinkingWellsEndsEnemyChangedConflictScalesMotivatedAfghanistan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I have some friends whose sermons are extremely practical - so practical that I can put them right to use. I'm trying to learn how to do that better; but I don't think my approach or style really has changed in these 30 years. Whether that's good or bad I don't know, but I don't think it has.” ThinkingKnowsTryingYearsI CanUseStyleChangedApproachPracticalsSermons Author:Max Lucado
“I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.” ThinkingWritingFictionChangedWorldviewWriting Fiction Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I even have some stories of people telling me how that song has changed their life, how it got them through hard times, how it saved their life when they were on the verge of thinking of doing the worst. That just really amazes me, that that movie [Romeo + Juliet] and that part in the movie are still having a huge effect on people's lives today.” PeopleThinkingStillsHardStoriesTodaySongWorstEffectsChangedHugeSavedHard TimesLive For TodayVergeJulietRomeo JulietThrough Hard Times Author:Quindon Tarver
“I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.” PeopleThinkingCan DoPracticeChangedI've Changed Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.” ThinkingChangedInstinctFatherhoodProtective Author:Jim Goad
“New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.” IfsThinkingWholeCareGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkChangedRight NowClothesHip HopDon't CareBunchHipsI Don't CareHopsFollowersBack WhenHip Hop Music Author:Phife Dawg
“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.” PeopleThinkingYearsMadeBookHurtWeekShareNew YorkChangedThousandMouthsMovedMade ItTransformedWord Of MouthHurting PeopleOne Thousand Gifts Author:Ann Voskamp
“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.” IfsThinkingBelieveChildrenForceForgetPrinciplesIssuesChangedClaimsParentingMotherhoodAddressesForget ItRaising ChildrenBeing A MotherHumblingHumbling Experiences Author:Diane Keaton
“I 've got this weird day that changed my life. I woke up one Wednesday, and my wife's a lawyer, she was off to get on a plane, to go to a business meeting somewhere else, and she said, "I think you might be a father. I have to go to the airport." It was like, six in the morning, and I was like, "That's great - what?!" I called her at noon once her flight landed, to confirm that I hadn't dreamt the thing she told me.” ThinkingSaidMightFatherMorningWifeChangedSixMeetingsMy WifeLawyerFlightPlanesAirportsSomewhere ElseNoonChanged My LifeWednesdayBusiness MeetingWeird Day Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda