Greg Fitzsimmons Quotes

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.

What I can control and all I know as of today, I am signed up for one more year...I guess things could change, but with all the uncertainty in many aspects, I don't see (his decision not to sign an extension) changing before camp gets here, and when camp gets here I'm even more certain to play it out.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time.

Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.