Deepak Chopra Quotes

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.

. . . escape is easier than change.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

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

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

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

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

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

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.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.