Rei Kawakubo Quotes

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

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

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

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.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

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 world is changing and people don't like 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.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

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.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

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.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

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.

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

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.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!