Freya Stark Quotes

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Seabeck is slow to change.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

The great mass of people are incapable of realizing that in economic life nothing is permanent except change. They regard the existing state of affairs as eternal; as it has been so shall it always be.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.