Jane Clayson Quotes

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

I don't like change that much.

I am absolutely terrified to move... I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.

Change is very scary.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

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 many people who would rather lose with what they are comfortable with than changing and doing what it takes to win.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

I think people don't really like change.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.