Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.

The old ideas won’t do.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

To innovate is not to reform.