Change Quotes

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

People hate change, and for good reason. Change makes us stupider, relatively speaking. Change adds new information to the universe; information that we don’t know. Our knowledge – as a percentage of all the things that can be known – goes down a tick every time something changes. And frankly, if we’re talking about a […]

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a non-existent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Seine, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

What single ability do we all have? The ability to change.