“I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.” ThinkingWritingChildrenLastsFacesSongTalentChangedHairSingersSatMacsLast Stand Author:Elizabeth Crook
“I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.” IfsThinkingStoriesStepsChangedConsistent Author:Ava DuVernay
“In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.” ThinkingPurposeFunStreetsChangedWall Author:Michael Lewis
“Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.” ThinkingLossChangedAidsEpidemicsLarryKramerAids Epidemic Author:Kevin Sessums
“I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.” PeopleThinkingYearsPastHateChangedAnd LoveLove And HateThings Have Changed Author:Steven Knight
“Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.” PeopleThinkingWayChangedComputerMicrosoft Author:Arfa Karim
“I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.” IfsThinkingWantBelieveTwoMomentsDifferencesPartyChangedConstituents Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The worst thing that can happen is when you have gone weeks and months into elaborate sequences and the storyline of the film changes and you find out they don't need it. Sometimes you don't shoot those sequences, or they have been shot and then get edited out of the sequence you've shot gets changed and needs to be redone. That can be hard. It's not heartbreaking, but you do tend to think, "Och, all that work and effort." But that's filming, you know? You put all of these modular things into the pot, and sometimes they don't all get used.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsHas BeensSometimesHardHappensFilmUsedEffortGoneWeekWorstChangedMonthsShotsPotWorst ThingsSequenceHeartbreakingEditedStoryline Author:Wade Eastwood
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayKindCharacterLostDarkInformationChangedMysteriousWay Of Thinking Author:Philip Glass
“I don't think I have changed my personality as much as I have evolved as a human. Before the name change, I was very timid, very self-conscious. Just not very confident. When I changed my name, it came from a place of power.” ThinkingHumansSelfNamesChangedPersonalityConsciousSelf ConsciousI Have ChangedName Changes Author:Skylar Grey
“I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.” ThinkingWantPowerfulBehindsChangedReaderPaintCarefulAccessVery PowerfulMagnetReciprocalPlasters Author:William Gibson
“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.” PeopleThinkingYearsMadeBookHurtWeekShareNew YorkChangedThousandMouthsMovedDareMade ItWhere You AreTransformedNew York TimesWord Of MouthHurting PeopleOne Thousand Gifts Author:Ann Voskamp
“With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.” ThinkingWorldMayLittlesSidesChangedLuckEpoch Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWantedWinningFeltDifferencesGrowing UpGrowingFailingChangedMinesNegativeDecidedPressure Author:Keke Palmer
“Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and outlook actually have not changed much. And people who are closest to me will tell you that the guy who came here is the same guy who's leaving.” PeopleThinkingCharacterGuyChangedProudLeavingClosestOutlookWrinkles Author:Barack Obama
“I think the world has changed dramatically since September 11th. It should force us to recognize that we are going to have to defend the free institutions of our society against those who are simply not willing to belong to a civil order.” ThinkingWorldShouldOrderForceChangedWillingInstitutionsOur SocietySeptemberSeptember 11September 11th Author:James M. Buchanan
“I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensPlayStoriesPiecesChangedPaintingSacredStorytellingTransformedWriting Poetry Author:Karla Souza
“I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill of the players are better, the strength, the overall athleticism, the teamwork involved. I think coaching is better. We have more exposure for our game than ever. You know, our sport has grown significantly in really the last five years. It's pretty amazing.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLastsGamesSportsFivePlayerChangedInvolvedSkillsBasketballCoachingFive YearsTeamworkExposureLast Five YearsAthleticism Author:Pat Summitt
“I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change. By the time my stories come out, it will have changed. So I never think much about that.” ThinkingWritingMatterStoriesPoliticalChangedConcernedNo Matter WhatLandscape Author:Stan Lee
“Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.” ThinkingWayRealSelfIndividualGrowsImagineMagicCreationChangedDefinitionsValuableOccasionsTransformedAlchemistCrucible Author:Warren G. Bennis
“I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayLittlesLongDoeDoneSeemsStuffBitsEffectsRocksHavensChangedLittle BitHarderHarmonyAwfulChanging The WorldCyclesRock N RollBobLong WayDylan Author:David Gilmour
“A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsHumansWarProblemAgeLastsSpaceHuman NatureChangedColdPeriodsDemandHappeningsStressAdmireWar Of The WorldsCivil WarProblem SolvingCold WarBiographiesTime And SpaceGoverningPublic LifeGreat DepressionTime To Think Author:Hillary Clinton
“In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.” ThinkingMenYearsMindKidsTodayFormChangedEternalTwentiesConservativeTyrannyDefinedLibertarianismConservatismHostilityFourteenIdealisticCredo Author:Steve Erickson
“Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsSometimesNightDoubtRecordsChangedRapNo DoubtEvery Night Author:Rakim
“Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really predict the future, but you can say, "Boy, are those glaciers ever melting." You can measure that, and you can say, "When they're all melted there won't be any Athabasca River," and you can say, "What will happen to the oil sands then?" because you need a lot of water to make that oil. "Where's that going to come from?" You can say things like that.” ThinkingNeedsHappensWaterBoysChangedRiversOilSandTwinsTowersBangsMeltingGlaciersTwin Towers Author:Margaret Atwood
“I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.” ThinkingChildrenWholeEnergyWifeSeeingChangedMetsWhole LifeBitterDickensUnleashedRampage Author:Felicity Jones
“Ricky Gervais changed our lives. And Mitch Hedberg, who we're like, "Oh, that's funny to me on a level I don't think I understand. But I'm clearly pleased by it beyond something that my brain's figured out." He was amazing.” ThinkingLevelsBrainOur LivesChanged Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.” ThinkingActionFunFocusChangedDadDirectMy DadPrioritiesSense Of HumorLiving My LifeRecklessCorrelationThings Have Changed Author:Anthony Green
“I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us, may be nothing, it may be a lot. I think that really depends how they find their voice and what they see as their real interest, and hopefully that would be for more schools and not more tanks.” PeopleThinkingMayRealWould BeSchoolAsksVoiceInterestChangedDependsAwakeningHopefullyTanks Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayAbilityTalkingSeeingHonestMediaChangedPaperApproachNewsPlentyAlternativesBeing HonestRealmsOnlineStoppingPapersItemsPublishColumnsBloggingColumnistsPeople TalkingTalking Back Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel