Thomas Heatherwick Quotes

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.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

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.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

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

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?

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

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.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

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

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

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.