Aidan Chambers Quotes

People change when they have to – not when we tell them to.

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

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.

Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.