Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

I don't like change that much.

I don't like change.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Walls don't fall without effort.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over