Brian Eno Quotes

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.

I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.