Holly Black Quotes

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Nothing had changed. Nothing.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

We don’t want to break what isn’t broken trying to fix what is.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Let well enough alone.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

I don't question things when they're going right.

When you have something that is perfect, that occupies a position and sector unrivaled by anyone else, that's one thing we do not want to tamper with.

If it ain't broke, don't break it.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.