Changed Person Quotes:

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

- Irving Penn

source: "Excerpt: 'The LIFE Guide to Photography'". abcnews.go.com. December 27, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Heart, Facts, Inspiring Photography, Digital Photography

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

source: June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

topic: Love, Life, Change, Words Love, Love Connection

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

- John Eliot

source: John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

topic: Success, Lists, Realistic, Times Have Changed, Life Changing Inspirational

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

- Russell Banks

source: Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

topic: Book, Reading, Home, Changed Person

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person .

- Arthur Gordon Webster

topic: Life Is, Flash, Exciting, Changed Person

I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same-sex couples were looking for.

- Wade Kach

source: "Maryland legislators pass gay marriage bill" by Ian Duncan, articles.latimes.com. February 23, 2012.

topic: Sex, Couple, Gay, Changed Person, Gay Couples

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

- Timothy Leary

source: Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

topic: Past, People, Interesting, Changed Person, Hang Ups

The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.  Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.

- Matthew Syed

topic: Motivational, Sports, Practice, Outer Limits, Changed Person