“I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, although that's so crazy. That's just delusional. But I recognize that it's crazy. It will be a little dinky change.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingLittlesNovelCrazyChanging The WorldDelusionalTrying To Change Author:Carolyn See
“I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.” PeopleThinkingWorldTwoBeliefNumbersMassCriticalTinyTwo ThingsChanging The WorldMinoritiesSmarterAnother WorldVetsCritical Mass Author:Bill Ayers
“At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.” PeopleWorldWayGivingEndsChanceWallExtraordinaryVery GoodHandleChanging The WorldThe End Of The DayPersonal LifeStatus QuoScrewsNavigateScrew UpsBasking Author:Viola Davis
“The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.” WorldShouldAgeYoungDecisionRoomsTechnologyGreaterStreetsWallExcitingCriticalChanging The WorldCeoYoung AgeCritical Decisions Author:Ken Moelis
“Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.” WorldPersonsPeacefulChanging The World Author:Deepak Chopra
“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
“I feel like having a positive attitude in life is going to change the world. If we could all have a good attitude, we could really make a change.” IfsWorldFeelsLife IsAttitudePositive AttitudeChanging The WorldMaking ChangesGood AttitudeHaving A Positive AttitudePositive Attitude In Life Author:Bianca Balti
“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.” IfsWorldYearsPersonsHandsGovernmentYoungUsedIndividualPresidentTechnologyCreativeCommunicationCoupleCapacityYears AgoToolsIncreaseExcitedDecadesCorporationsChanging The WorldBe CreativeSmartphonesCommunication Technology Author:Jason Silva
“Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested."” IfsKnowsMenWorldTryingLooksSaidKnownCarMusic IsDiedWoodsChanging The WorldNot InterestedTrying To Change Author:Jon Gordon
“When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something like that and aim high. You're probably not going to get beyond your dreams. So you might as well make them big.” WorldWellsDreamBigsMightAimYour DreamsChanging The WorldAspireAim High Author:Jon Gordon
“If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.” PeopleIfsWorldWayTryingLittlesI CanWould BeDrinkDrinkingAlcoholHandleChanging The WorldPotBecause I CanDrinkersTrying To Change Author:Willie Nelson
“You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.” IfsWorldMatterListeningChanging The World Author:Stephen Malkmus
“One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.” KnowsWorldWayWantStoriesUseJobsChallengesExampleAdventureProductsBest WayNarrativeApplesChanging The WorldConvinceNew Products Author:Kabir Sehgal
“When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.” WorldCareSchoolLyingPolicyTaxesOfficeDeterminedI RealizedStealingChanging The WorldTreasuryLaw School Author:Dan Burt
“As we know, there are companies like Monsanto filling the Earth with their genetically-modified poison, which makes me wonder how many people share our belief that it's better to be good.We have to change the world!” PeopleWorldEarthBeliefWonderShareBe GoodChanging The World Author:Nia Vardalos
“I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like climate change, there's a sense of hopelessness and despair. Maybe it's really a small gesture but if you can have a garden it may make you feel like you're helping in some way, or that you're making a connection. You can't change the world but you can change your backyard.” PeopleThinkingWorldHelpingLike YouDespairGardenEnvironmentalClimate ChangeChanging The WorldHopelessnessSave The Planet Author:Novella Carpenter
“Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.” WorldMeanArtDoneConsciousnessRevolutionChanging The WorldSlogansHippiePsychedelic Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.” PeopleWorldBeautifulImportanceChanging The WorldPeople Can Change Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Young women now, this generation - girls my age too, but even younger than I am - they're the ones that are going to change the world. They've grown up in such a new way of thinking about women and female empowerment. I grew up with a little bit of that, but teenagers now, those are the girls that are going to make the world a different place for everyone else.” ThinkingWorldDifferentAgeGirlFemaleEmpowermentTeenagerChanging The WorldYoung WomenDifferent Place Author:Lucy Hale
“What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining some wood because sometimes he makes furniture for the house. I said, "Could I experiment a little bit?" and he said sure so I experimented and I realized that it's so fun! You can express yourself, you can use your imagination, and in just that little time I wanted to change the world for the better. After that wonderful experience I thought, how about painting?” WorldSometimesHouseFunImaginationWonderfulPaintingDadOne DayMy DadI RealizedChanging The WorldExpress YourselfGarage Author:Autumn de Forest
“A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.” WorldChanging The World Author:Bruce H. Lipton
“If I get to go crazy, since God can't be limited, than I would love to be part of a small team that runs a network that changes the world forever and wins numerous Oscars for films I am part of writing and producing. And, for my own personal satisfaction I'd love to join The Today Show, co-host The View, and star in my own TV series about a smart, yet quirky girl, who's on an incredible God journey of getting to know herself, confront her issues, and live her dreams.” WorldWritingDreamRunningTodayFilmGirlWinningForeverJourneyTeamCrazySmartIncrediblesChanging The WorldQuirkyPersonal Satisfaction Author:Cynthia Garrett
“I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Did he mean that philosophy could change the world, or that philosophers should turn to the higher priority of changing the world? If the former, then he presumably meant philosophy in a broad sense of the term, including analysis of the social order and ideas about why it should be changed, and how. In that broad sense, philosophy can play a role, indeed an essential role, in changing the world.” WorldMindMeanPhilosophyTermChangedPhilosopherVariousPrioritiesNot SureChanging The World Author:Noam Chomsky
“You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.” WorldGivingMeanGiving UpChanging The World Author:John Kasich
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” LifeInspirationalEndsMatterMotivationalTodayPeaceChangeInspiringSilenceAttitudeOur LivesSocietyGreatnessKingsElectionSilentCivil RightsThis LifeAfrican AmericanMinistersIndifferenceChanging The WorldMaking A DifferenceVotingActivistVotersApathyDayPositive LifeMaking ChangesBlack HistoryComplacencyInsperationalCivil Rights MovementMatter Of FactTaking ActionBaptistsLove HateLives Of OthersCivil SocietyLove And HateAnimal WelfareEnd Of LifeThings That MatterPeace And JusticeAdvocacyI Had A DreamGreat NationsElection DayHuman TraffickingTraffickingHate SpeechBystandersPioneeringLive Life To Its FullestSilence Is GoldenI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechSilencingCivil Right MovementDarfurElections And VotingAfrican American Civil RightsInspirational VotingLight Of My LifeGreatest LifeCivil Rights LeadersAction And ChangeWise LifeInfinite HopeOther People's Actions Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.” ThinkingWorldRealViolenceChanging The World Author:James Purefoy
“I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they weren't in it for the money. They started it because they really wanted to create something that; one, they wanted, and two, they thought was going to change the world.” ThinkingWorldValuesMoralEthicsChanging The WorldGoogleMoral Values Author:Anne Wojcicki
“Everything I've done hasn't worked out - you know, some things aren't as great as others - but I'm having so much fun, who cares? Isn't that what an artist is supposed to do? We're trying to change the world. Otherwise, why be an artist? You want to shake people up and make 'em think.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingDoneCareArtistFunChanging The WorldTrying To Change Author:Beth Grant
“Young people, especially young men due to culture and perhaps testosterone, dream about changing the world, making an impact, doing big things. Now our young people are told life was better in the past, that we should be less ambitious and hold on to what we have. The grand narratives of exploration and change that drove the world forward for a century have been tamed.” PeopleMenWorldDreamPastCultureChanging The WorldExplorationAmbitious Author:Garry Kasparov
“Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelievePoorVisionTakenLosingResponsibleVictimBoredChanging The WorldOutsidersHorrific Author:Garry Kasparov
“If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?” WorldKindDonePurposeWishExistenceTomorrowChanging The WorldNeighborhoodLease Author:Les Wexner
“I think different societies, cultures, individuals, teams of people, make the world a better place. The founding fathers, they made New England, they made those 13 colonies. I don't know if they thought they were changing the world or just changing their world, but they did make the world a better place. Doctors that cure patients or cure diseases or make discoveries, they're making the world a better place. Can I make the world a better place by selling underpants? Not really. That's just the means. That gives me resources to try to make the world a better place.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingTryingMeanDifferentCultureFatherIndividualTeamPatientSellingChanging The World Author:Les Wexner
“We can use our art to become political, to become something you want to talk about. We make clothes, but we have the chance to change a generation as well. We have to remember that fashion changed the roles of men and women: When Yves Saint Laurent was putting pants on a woman, he was not only doing that - he was assuming the fact that a woman can wear pants like a man. It's all the codes that I think fashion pushed so much to change the world, and today it's what I'm trying to do in my own way.” ThinkingMenWorldTryingArtTodayRememberPoliticalChanceFashionChangedMen And WomenAssumingSaintCodeChanging The World Author:Olivier Rousteing
“I think that these are different times, and different things are available to artists, and certain things have become passé. You've already seen the outcome of a lot of things that seemed to have a lot of potential. We've already heard that, and I can't tell you if it made a difference or not. But we already know that artists can do that, and they shouldn't feel threatened by doing it. They're probably not going to change the world. They're going to change a few people's perspectives and maybe make somebody's day at times, if they can.” ThinkingWorldDifferentArtistPerspectiveChanging The World Author:Jakob Dylan
“I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveMeanGuySongI BelieveCoupleValuableChanging The WorldGreat Service Author:Jakob Dylan
“The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.” WorldImportantNiceSeriousConsequenceChanging The WorldButterflyPompous Author:Marianne Faithfull
“As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs.” PeopleWorldImportantBookInspireChanging The WorldSpeakersPastor Author:Erwin McManus
“I feel like I'm a showbiz professional. This is my job, it's going to have ups and downs. I'm lucky to be able to do this for a living, but I also do feel like I don't anticipate changing the world. All I can really do is do a good job when I'm hired to do a job, and be happy at home.” WorldHomeLuckyChanging The WorldGood JobUps & DownsShowbiz Author:Andy Richter
“You're changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That's why I say this is a life long struggle - for everybody.” WorldLongStruggleAspirationChanging The WorldLong Life Author:Robert S. Kaplan
“We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works.” WorldSufferingBeliefSacrificeChanging The WorldVirtuous Author:Payam Akhavan
“US dollars should not be used anymore. Western institutions should be ignored. Totally new structures should be, and are being erected. China and Russia are, of course, in the lead of de-dollarization. All this is extremely important and can change the world, in the near future.” WorldImportantWesternChanging The WorldIgnored Author:Andre Vltchek
“I think that that phrase from the Bible is one of the best definitions of "creative." When you are creative, you are in the world in the sense that you see what it is and know its problems and possibilities. But you are not of the world in the sense that you are not caught up in external things and are coming from your inner resources to create approaches that are yours alone and have potential to change the world.” ThinkingWorldProblemCreativePossibilityChanging The WorldCaught Up Author:Michael Ray
“Things that people thought not possible when they were proposed and blown off become enormously successful. There are a lot of ideas that never succeed - but we all know the crazy ideas that did - who would have thought 30 years ago that people would pay $4 for a cup of coffee - but today, we have 20,000 Starbucks stores around the world. A group of prospective investors once remarked that "Google" was the "balloon company." The point is, don't rush to pooh-pooh something you don't understand or aren't willing to try - it could be something that changes the world.” PeopleWorldTryingTodaySuccessfulCrazySucceedCoffeeChanging The WorldInvestorsGoogleCoffee Cup Author:James Merlino
“I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this stuff, and I have a big, multinational global-youth platform of kids who are going to change the world. So I was like, "I should be doing that. I should be showing this to people. That's my job." And since that time, I've been very happy.” PeopleWorldKidsPoliticianMadI RealizedChanging The WorldVery Happy Author:Shane Smith
“But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that might make people think about people a little bit, but we're not that important. I think a lot of writers think we are incredibly important. I don't feel like that about my fiction. I feel like it's quite a selfish thing at heart. I want to tell a story. I want someone to listen to me. And I love that, but I don't think I deserve the moon on a stick because I do that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingHeartImportantStruggleMoonDeserveSelfishChanging The WorldListen To Me Author:Evie Wyld
“Generally, the technology that enables disruption is developed in the companies that are the practitioners of the original technology. That's where the understanding of the technology first comes together. They usually can't commercialize the technology because they have to couple it with the business model innovation, and because they tend to try to take all of their technologies to market through their original business model, somebody else just picks up the technology and changes the world through the business model innovation.” WorldTryingTogetherUnderstandingTechnologyCoupleInnovationChanging The World Author:Clayton Christensen
“The comedy community is fairly supportive of human beings in general. There are some things you can teach with comedy that people can't learn by being hit over the head with facts. I think, as comedians, we're trying to change the world. It's slow, but sure.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingCommunityTeachComedyComedianChanging The WorldSupportiveTrying To Change Author:Colin Mochrie
“Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.” WorldWritingTryingChangedChanging The WorldTrying To Change Author:Paul Beatty
“My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to go. Whenever I talk about this, I have to begin in the most boring of all possible ways: by defining my terms. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.” PeopleWorldGivingMeanBookFeelingsTermLove IsCompassionKindnessEmpathyArgumentBoringChanging The WorldWarmth Author:Paul Bloom
“We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveMeanTogetherLike YouStriveCompromiseChanging The WorldExtremismNo Compromise Author:G.W. Sok