Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

For the world has changed, and we must change with it

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

The hard part is choosing to change what needs changing.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.