Isaac Asimov Quotes

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

I resist change even as I call for it.

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

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.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.