Thomas Sowell Quotes

Too much is the same as not enough.

Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'

There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

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.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

"It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day." "It must come sometimes to "jam to-day,""Alice objected. "No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know." "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing."

Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.

I hate taking myself seriously. It drives me crazy!