Ford Frick Quotes

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

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.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

If you don’t move, you get stale.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

I think quality will be increasingly important-we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.