Chinua Achebe Quotes

The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Change is one of my favourite words.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

I am forever learning and changing.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.