I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted.
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.
I think we can only ultimately change the world by example and by fearlessly embracing what could happen.
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.
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
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.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.