Frank Gehry Quotes

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

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

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.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar.... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

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

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

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.

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.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

You have to accept that traditions exist, that people don't change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.