Garth Brooks Quotes

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Some people will never change.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

We don’t want to break what isn’t broken trying to fix what is.

Reform that you may preserve.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

I'm trying not to change.

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

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.