Change Quotes

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the face of social change.

The physical is a symbol of the spiritual world. The people who keep old rags, old useless objects, who hoard, accumulate; are they the hoarders and keepers of the old ideas, useless information, lovers of the past only, even if its a form of detritus? I have the opposite obsession. In order to change skins, […]

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too.

“Change” has a warm, vernal sound at age twenty-two. Then comes a day when all the word brings to mind is “any change in a wart or mole… “

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people’s lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.

All things change; nothing perishes.

So longstanding and so rapid have been these processes of change that expectation of change and anxiety about change have been built into our character as a people.