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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. -- B. F. Skinner
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
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' -- Willie Nelson
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have. -- Lupe Fiasco
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. -- George Harrison
When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game. -- Jochen Zeitz
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future. -- Lea Michele
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it. -- Srikumar Rao
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. -- Neil Gaiman
Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in. -- Julianne Moore
I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself. -- Bethany Hamilton
If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run. -- Gretchen Rubin
Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not. -- Patricia McBride
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working. -- Shakti Gawain

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