Christopher Morley Quotes

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

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.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Change is like to surfing. You can't just paddle into life, stand still and expect to stay on top of your board. The waves of change will knock you off and drag you under. Some people even think changes are fun! You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you'll need to change.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

I believe we find ourselves in a period of radical transformation. Regardless of whether it is digitalization, the environment or terrorism. We can be successful in this new world. We have the necessary willingness. The French are inventive and innovative. But we need to finally pick ourselves up.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?