We can’t change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world – and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment. – Pico Iyer
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers. – Nina Hagen
News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. – Michael Stipe
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help ‘change the world.’ In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside. – Chris Gabrieli
If you’re a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say ‘I’m not going to share this idea with anyone,’ then you only impact the few and not the many. – Cameron Sinclair
You’re going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You’ll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. – Philip Johnson
What’s unique about Washington is that no one’s from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference. – Mark Batterson
I didn’t appreciate, coming out of corporate America… what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world. – John Sculley
The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world. – Kristin Gore
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. – Martin Scorsese
What sets ‘Some Nights’ apart from anything we’ve ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists. – Jack Antonoff
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. – Jessica Mitford
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming. – Michael Phelps
The ability to identify someone at a moment’s notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world. – Jan Chipchase
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. – Margaret Mead
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it’s kind of a big name to hold up when you’re nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, ‘This kid’s really weird’. – River Phoenix
You can’t change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. – Sebastian Thrun
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done. – Steve Jobs
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world. – Steve Ballmer