Libba Bray Quotes

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.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

You have to fight against being an antique.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

I don't like change that much.

Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world.

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.