Change Anxiety Quotes

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

I reached a point in my private life where I started having these thoughts about changing. But I was paralyzed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point.

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

When there's change, people are always anxious.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

One of the things that 'Too Bright' refers to is how there's a lot of times where I see things that I could change that could make me more contented, but I usually just don't make those changes because they seem new and scary. I just stay where I'm at, even if I'm miserable, because I'm familiar with it.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

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

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.