Eric Foner Quotes

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.