Gary Zukav Quotes

You really can change the world if you care enough.

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.

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Sometime between elections we should concentrate on doing something.

Change America—Change the World

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

Everything I do is political.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Music can't change the world.

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.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?