Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

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

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

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

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

When you are through changing, you are through.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

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.

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

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

The old ideas won’t do.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.