Philip Zimbardo Quotes

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

Over the years, the critics have said, 'They never change.' Maybe the little guy's got a new color of school uniform. I always thought, 'Well, what were we going to change into?' A jazz band? A keyboard band?

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

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

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.