“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.219
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
"Three Methods Of Reform" in Pamphlets : Translated from the Russian (1900) as translated by Aylmer Maude, p. 29
As quoted in The Artist's Way at Work : Riding the Dragon (1999) by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160
Variant: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
“They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.”
Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies
Source: Coin Locker Babies
“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
“The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) Novelist, short story writer, teacher
Gaines response after being asked: "Do you also see things in that world that you wish could be retained?", as quoted by Marcia Gaudet and Carl WootonPorch in Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft http://books.google.es/books?id=JtRNfST4g_QC&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s (1990)
