Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'
If it wasn't for Boz, my life would've changed. Meeting the Porcaro brothers and getting that Boz Scaggs gig were two life-changing events for me. It all fell into place after that.
If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.
There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.
I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow.
One day can bend your life.
My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.
The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.
There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.
You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?
Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.
I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.
Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'
I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
See the gift that change delivers.
You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.
It's pain that changes our lives.
What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
Before 'Life of Pi,' I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I just can't see it as my cup of tea anymore.
