David Niven Quotes

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

To learn is to change.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

You have to learn and keep learning.

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

I am forever learning and changing.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

I learn new things all the time.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

I hope I'm always learning something.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.

Sometimes you need to come out of your comfort zone a little bit.

I am always trying to learn and adapt.