Toni Morrison Quotes

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

To change, to convert? Why bother?

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

I like progress but I hate change.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

We have to change.

I'm constantly surprised when people say, 'But you haven't changed!' It's like saying, 'You've got a wheel. Now why don't you make it a square?'

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

To improve is to change.

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Changing course is never easy.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.