Susan Sontag Quotes

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

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.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

You've got to change with time.

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

Human beings find change very difficult. They find change is something that can be quite an awkward thing to adjust to. It applies to music. It applies to life. It applies to everything.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

Life is continually changing. This is what makes people better.

As for adjustments, I think every relationship changes every day.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

I believe that change is the essence of life.

We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.

I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.