Constant Change Quotes

The past is the present and the future too.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

The events of future history ... will be of the same nature—–or nearly so—–as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

I approach fashion as an evolution. It's always changing. As you know, sometimes it changes in three months.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.