Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.