Vicki Baum Quotes

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

The world has changed a great deal, and our posture must change with it.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

The world changes, and if you don't go with the change, you're left behind.

We have to keep pace with changing times.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

You've got to change with time.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.