Michael Chang Quotes

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

There are things that I need to work on, that I have worked on, and that I'll continue to work on.

I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

We need to look at what we have ahead of us and that is more important than looking at someone else. It is the only way forward.

I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

I'm a work in progress.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.