Daniel Gilbert Quotes

Everybody is changing.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

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 like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

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.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

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.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Nothing endures but change.

Everyone changes all the time.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.