Howard Thurman Quotes

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.