Chinua Achebe Quotes

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

We're continuing to evolve into what we think we can do, and you know that takes a little bit of times sometimes to figure out what you're really good at and what you can hang her hat on per se, and I think we're learning that each week that goes by.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

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.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Change, like healing, takes time.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.