Theodore Zeldin Quotes

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

Nobody is powerless.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

I've always said to everyone that ever worked for me, if you get too dug in on a position, the facts change, and you don't change to adapt to the facts, you will never be successful.

Constantly adapting yourself to changing times is a very integral part of a successful person's personality because change is the only constant, and one should have the ability to change and adapt to change with time.

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that's the interesting thing.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That's what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

I don't worry about other people, and I don't let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

Occasionally, you have to make adjustments and try different things.

We can't change the past. We can only get ready for the future.

I think we have to be positive and think about what we can do now because the past is the past - we cannot change it.

Coronavirus is constantly attacking society's vulnerable classes and spaces. We must shake off the fantasy that we can go back to the past we were accustomed to.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

I'm not going to let other people set my limitations.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.