Twyla Tharp Quotes

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

I believe that change is the essence of life.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

Change is the essence of life.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

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

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

Change is a natural form of progression.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

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

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Life is one big transition.

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

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.