Lara Giddings Quotes

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

I'm always challenged by someone.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

Discussion in America means dissent.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

No great reform can be achieved except at the sacrifice of some opinion.

There is no history without polemic ... without originating in antagonism to something which exists and which it wants to combat and substitute

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

Change does not come easy.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop