Donald L. Carcieri Quotes

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

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

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.