Robin Williams Quotes

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?

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

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

I think people don't really like change.

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.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

I don't like change that much.

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

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.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

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

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different.