Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

When you're home all the time, you don't have as much courage.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I am absolutely terrified to move... I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.

One of the things that 'Too Bright' refers to is how there's a lot of times where I see things that I could change that could make me more contented, but I usually just don't make those changes because they seem new and scary. I just stay where I'm at, even if I'm miserable, because I'm familiar with it.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.