Gena Showalter Quotes

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

People do change.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

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

People change when they have to – not when we tell them to.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

Change does not come easy.

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.

The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.