Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

I believe in no final solutions.

Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.

My karma just ran over my dogma.

My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.