Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.
— Weyes Blood
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
— Werner Heisenberg
I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
— Wendy O. Williams
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
— Wendy Kopp
There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
— Wendy Davis
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
— Wendell Willkie
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
— Wayne Swan
There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should be an admirable thing - from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Miles to Ornette and some people who are not even known today - some kids coming up - people who are out to change the world.
— Wayne Shorter
The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.
— Wayne Messam
Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.
— Wayne LaPierre
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
— Wayne Dyer
If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
— Wavy Gravy
I wouldn't change a thing about my family.
— Warwick Davis
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
— Warren Bennis
If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
— Walter Payton
I want to help people and change the world.
I can't change my skin. I won't change my voice. I can't change my confidence.
— Wendy Williams
New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It's going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world.
— Wendy Long
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
— Wendy Carlos
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.
— Wayne Static
You can't change the market; the market just is.
— Wayne Rogers
My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
— Wayne McGregor
For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be done to change the direction of our nation before all is lost - the NRA is your refuge. It is your place to stand and fight with Americans just like you, for all that is good and right.
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
— Wayne Coyne
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
— Washington Irving
People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
— Warren Spector
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
— Warren Beatty
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
— Walter Murch
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.
— Wes Anderson
Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.
— Wendy Whelan
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
— Wendie Malick
I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
I'm sure I acted differently after I got married, I know I did. But... people get married and things change. It doesn't mean that the band has to break up.
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are pathological in their hatred of our civil rights.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
— Waylon Jennings
I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
— Washed Out
I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
— Warren Littlefield
I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
— Wangechi Mutu
