Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

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?

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change is rarely comfortable.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

Many people are so afraid of change.

No one likes uncertainty.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

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.