D. H. Lawrence Quotes

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.