Ted Shackelford Quotes

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.'

That was then. This is now.

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Some age, others mature.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Change is one of my favourite words.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.