Dan Quisenberry Quotes

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Things are more like today than they have ever been before.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Movement isn't progress.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I want to try to keep my life the same.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

There is no such thing as standing still.