Michael Chang Quotes

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

Life is a work in progress.

I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.