“I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.” IfsWritingYearsStoriesMotherOpinionChangedCopiesTantrums Author:Tom Robbins
“Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.” PeopleKnowsYearsEndsPrayerChangedRevolutionKingsCallingRadicalActivistBreakfastLuther Author:Bill Ayers
“My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.” YearsPastHoursMinutesChangedSeconds Author:Julio Iglesias
“I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantYearsMindSaidI CanSelfCan DoSawsSelf EsteemChangedPeriodsTrainingWeightSticksSevenAccomplishEsteemPoundsSeven YearsAnything In LifeWeight TrainingGreat Self Esteem Author:Aaron Tippin
“Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.” PeopleYearsPastWaitingFourFansChangedRacingFour YearsOlympicsSkisSki Racing Author:Lindsey Vonn
“In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.” YearsSeemsThreeOpportunityCausesDifficultEffortEnvironmentChangedCompetitionSizeProductivityObjectivesFactorsDozen Author:Warren Buffett
“Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!” YearsSeemsSpiritualLawCultureInterestingLevelsCommonChangedYears AgoInspiredToleranceThirtyInterpretationInstructionInteresting ThingsThirty YearsObjectionsInterracial Marriage Author:Lee Carroll
“There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.” PeopleKnowsYearsEarthFacesChangedMetsHarry PotterPottersEleven Author:Matthew Lewis
“It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.” PeopleThinkingYearsInterestingHavensChangedWeightObsceneMatured Author:David Duchovny
“It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.” IfsYearsMindMadeLastsMovingLinesInterestingWonderChangedMachinesStuckVersesDeliberateTypewriters Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were eradicated by giant explosions. My goals haven't changed, because my goal has always been to save the world!” ThinkingWorldYearsSometimesHardGoalMillionsHavensChangedConcernYears AgoEverydayGiantsExplosionsSave The WorldEcosystems Author:Annalee Newitz
“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.” ThinkingFeelsYearsI CanBookHelpingHandsPastChangedShapesSixPreparedExcitedEditorsEditingPrivilegedSuggestions Author:Danielle Dutton
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.” YearsSometimesSongThreePiecesHavensChangedBandReincarnationIncarnationDrummerPlaying Drums Author:Theresa Wayman
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.” IfsGivingYearsEndsCareCompanyShareSecurityChangedProgramProtectionOilHeyDataHealth CareLengthLegislationBansLiabilityCyberCyber SecurityExportingCyber Attacks Author:Susan Davis
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.” ThinkingYearsSchoolChangedPersonality Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I was 32 years old, and I've changed my mind. And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending too much time talking about gun laws against law- abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.” YearsMindReasonEnoughLawTalkingToo MuchChangedCitizensGunSevenSpendingCriminalsSeven YearsAbidingEnough TimeProsecutorI've ChangedLaw Abiding CitizenGun Law Author:Chris Christie
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall
“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
“And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.” PeopleFeelsYearsStillsEnoughStrongChangedBattleDiseaseShameStrong EnoughHivStigmaTransmissionHiv PositiveUphill Battles Author:Elton John
“I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that. My relationship with it has changed over the years, and I wanted the show to reflect that in a real way.” WayWantYearsRealShowsWantedChangedPersonal Experiences Author:Will Arnett
“That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.” PeopleYearsEndsLastsAmericaChangedThe End Of The DayDjs Author:A-Trak
“My numbers and my stats were exactly the same. I was doing what the coaches wanted me to do. And what I had been doing up to that point was enough to get me a very well-paying contract with the Vikings. ... In my mind there was only one thing that had changed from the year before and the year I got cut: And that was I started speaking out in support of same-sex rights.” YearsMindWellsEnoughWantedSexNumbersSupportCuttingRightsOne ThingChangedCoachesContractsVikingsSpeaking Out Author:Chris Kluwe
“Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities.” MenYearsScienceSpiritChangeChangedMassHundredYears AgoScientistOriginalsUniversityProductionsUnusualExceptionalMass Production Author:Anthony Standen
“If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.” IfsMenYearsLooksTwoWarCountryFilmYoungThreeAsksDecisionAnswersHalfResponsibilityImpossibleHappenedChangedLike YouMen And WomenYears AgoComplexesHopefullyYoung ManThree YearsRight Answers Author:Paul Haggis
“This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.” PeopleWorldYearsSocialSpaceSuccessfulChangedInternetQuietCreatingNew WorldFrustratedSocial Network Author:Emmanuel Petit
“During 2007 "Not for Sale" was born from a problem I saw in Thailand. We established a basic level of care to the community there. Over the years our effective means of response has changed to help provide people with choices for the future.” PeopleYearsMeanHelpingProblemCareChoicesBornCommunityLevelsSawsChangedResponseThailand Author:David Batstone
“Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.” YearsMayHas BeensLordChangedYogaIndiaSacredFarmsFactoriesCowsKrishnaFlutesTimes Have ChangedLord Krishna Author:Sharon Gannon
“There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.” YearsUsedChangedMexico Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.” MenWayYearsLongMomentsStoriesHomeFilmMovingLostForeverTakenGraceSeeingChangedHe ManInvolvedBehaviorDignityTradeSlaveMetaphorAbsenceTriumphOur FamilyApologizingBack HomeHorrificDisgracefulSlave Trade Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.” WritingYearsHalfChangedSixYears AgoLandscapeHalf A Year Author:Natalie Dormer
“There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest, where people here are making less than the national average. Unemployment is higher than the national average, and a lot of the young people, especially, have left because there just aren't jobs and that sort of thing. So you have that going on, the feeling that that hasn't really changed in years or at least with their help - with the last state government.” PeopleYearsStatesHelpingFeelingsGovernmentJobsLastsYoungLeftChangedHigherConcernWesternAverageUnemploymentPoorestState GovernmentPrettiest Author:Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenWarJobsLastsUsedDesirePeaceLeaderChangedBuildingSafetyShelterGood JobWorld LeaderLove Of MoneyWaging WarDesire Love Author:Jim Clifton
“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
“People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.” PeopleYearsMotivationHavensChanged Author:Vinton Cerf
“The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive.” WayYearsFirstsPersonsUseRealityPastUsedFiveCarChangedAmountCostAveragePhonesFive YearsExpensiveAverage Person Author:Devra Davis
“I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.” YearsBookEnvironmentChangedYears AgoMarkBlogs Author:Sam Abell
“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
“Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.” IfsFeelsYearsSocialCasesChangedDutyYears AgoTwentiesObligedFrameworkNiceties Author:Mark Ravenhill
“For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc., but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama and then they have nowhere to go because those countries are not - for example, in Nicaragua, the border was closed. I've always said that I'm open to a study on how can it be changed.” PeopleYearsSaidCountryAmericaStudySeeingExampleChangedBordersEtcEnteringNowhere To GoNicaraguaPanamaCentral AmericaCosta Rica Author:Marco Rubio
“We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.” YearsChangedTheoryDevelopmentIntellectualIranSecularismIntellectual Development Author:Akbar Ganji
“I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].” YearsThreeChangedThree YearsArrestedOrganizer Author:Bill Ayers
“I mean, let's take the average spouse. You know, you show up in an employer's, you know, office, and it's shown that you've changed jobs every two years. Well, to many employers that could be viewed as a red flag. But the truth is, is that you've made those moves because you're serving your country, and each time you've found a career, and you've been able to provide for your family, and you've continued to volunteer, and on and on and on.” KnowsYearsWellsMeanMadeTwoCountryShowsAbleJobsMovingFoundCareersChangedTruth IsOfficeRedAverageOur FamilyTwo YearsServingFlagsVolunteerSpouseEmployersRed FlagsYou've Changed Author:Michelle Obama
“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
“The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.” WorldYearsTodayOpportunityDealsChangedYears AgoFortunate Author:Richard Meier
“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.” TryingYearsFirstsKindHas BeensWantedFunActingFocusChangedYeahTeenagerLazySay AnythingSmall PartsCool Movie Author:Alia Shawkat