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" I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. "

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" You put high heels on and you change. "

" Anybody who doesn't see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don't see the reality. It's so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear. "

Juan Manuel Santos

" Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. "

" The great growling engine of change - technology. "

" I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. "

" Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing. "

" Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve. "

Sarah McLachlan

" Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action. "

" Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. "

Gerald Jampolsky

" Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. "

Indigenous People

" People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes. "

" Bravery is the engine of change. "

" Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity. "

" In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle. "

" I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. "

" Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. "

" I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. "

Sydney Schanberg

" I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it. "

" The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact. "

" The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction. "

Christian de Duve

" I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. "

" People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. "

" The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. "

Octavia Spencer

" God is bigger than people think. "

" He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. "

" Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. "

" I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'. "

" The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. "