Rahm Emanuel Quotes

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

The question is the propriety of how we go about influencing and changing behavior.

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

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.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

People always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion..

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

A very great percentage of our people see only from $200 to $600 cash in hand during the course of a year, and many, many others have incomes under $1000 or ranging from $1000 to $2000 a year. This problem involves so many people that we cannot just say "Let the government solve it." We, as a people, must solve it by deciding on the type of social and economic philosophy which we wish to see established in this country. When we know what changes we want, we can then set government machinery to work to accomplish them, but the people themselves must know what it is they wish to do.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.