Chuck Klosterman Quotes

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

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

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

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

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

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

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Change brings opportunity.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

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.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Change happens at the frontier.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.