Igor Stravinsky Quotes

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

To stand still is to regress.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

There is no such thing as standing still.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

He who does not advance, retreats.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

Anything is better than stagnation.

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

You are either going forward or you are not.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.