Terry Riley Quotes

Change is certain. Progress is not.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Everything changes.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

Everything is going to change.

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Time brings all things to pass.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Life is one big transition.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.