Hugh Mackay Quotes

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

I don't like change that much.

I think people don't really like change.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.

I don't like change.

What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.

. . . escape is easier than change.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.