Freya Stark Quotes

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

… maintain the integrity and flexibility of our teachings

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

What you don't want from a player is to walk off and say 'that's the way I play.'

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

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

To change with change is the changeless state

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.