Jean Monnet Quotes

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

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

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Every change is being forced upon us.

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.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Reform or die.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

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

There are times where fans don't understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, 'We like the way you used to be.' Or they say, 'We liked what you did then.' You can't stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It's something The Undertaker laid on me.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.