Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

I also held that view for about 50 years, but lately I have been rethinking it and now believe I was wrong.

We never invent new reasons to continue with a position when the original reasons are no longer available.

Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

Don't get stuck on a business plan just because it was your business plan.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

When the facts change, one ought to change one’s opinion.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.