Ellen Goodman Quotes

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

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

I don't like change that much.

I think people don't really like change.

Sometimes you're forced into change.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

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

You must change in order to survive.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

Change, while sometimes good, is difficult to absorb. I think that a part of it is just having to see the results.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

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

Human beings find change very difficult. They find change is something that can be quite an awkward thing to adjust to. It applies to music. It applies to life. It applies to everything.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

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