Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

For the world has changed, and we must change with it

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

People have to evolve.

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

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

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

Change is rarely comfortable.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.