The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling… I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that’s why I went to America. I didn’t intend to stay. – Howard Stringer
We think we control our environment, but in fact, it’s our environment that controls us. We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring. – Guy Spier
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate. – Henry Petroski
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world – not just study it. – Henry Petroski
A lot of young people don’t think they can make a difference. That’s really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I’m there to tell the young people, ‘Look, a few committed souls can change the world.’ – Jim Yong Kim
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. – John McAfee
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver’s seat. But this does not mean that China won’t exploit that world for its own purposes. – Ivan Krastev
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world. – Jack Ma
You weren’t going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world. – James Earl Jones
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do. – J. Michael Straczynski
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation. – Andrew Young
It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I’ve never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people’s perception of each other. And that’s how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world. – Chris Milk
I think there’s a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world. – Charles Duhigg
Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Aaron Sorkin
We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It’s not all going into one place; it’s going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another. – Bill Maris
I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you’re 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government. – Blake Farenthold
I am going to change the world, and I’m talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that. – Abby Wambach
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. – Bono
That taught me one lesson which is that you’re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really. – Billy Bragg
I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars. – Curt Schilling
You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world. – Elizabeth Coleman
We (actors) don’t really change the world. We reflect it… but Washington really changes the world. – Martin Sheen