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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.
Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.