Chinua Achebe Quotes

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

Perspectives change.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

I used to dance, but now I only move.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Nothing is rigid, and everything is movable.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.