Paul Auster Quotes

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

I am forever learning and changing.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Maybe we all change over time.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

If I was staying the same, then I wouldn't be evolving and changing and that would be boring and that would be unhealthy.

I think it's important for me to keep adapting.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

We're all works in progress and we'll all keep growing.

Change is hard. A lot of times, at the end of films, even if they're amazing, I look back, and I'm like, 'I don't think anyone changed,' and that's an important thing to see.

I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.