Ben Fogle Quotes

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

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.