Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

The metamorphosis of people is so interesting. I guess that's why everybody loves before and afters, throwback Thursdays, and all that kind of thing.

Change is a process not an event.

Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always at the heart of life. No matter how old you are, to me life is always about changing and growing and discovering and that's not always easy.

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.