Philip K. Dick Quotes

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

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

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

We have to be prepared for change.