Deepak Chopra Quotes

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

You can go through the process. You can also change. You can do both. Uh, you can do one, the other, or both. And I think it depends on the individual.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

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

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

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

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body.

I can change my mind and can learn other things. And anything I don't know, I'm capable of learning if I so desire or if it's necessary.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.