Paul Newman Quotes

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

Running water never grows stale.

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

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

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.