Resistant to Change Quotes

The past is obdurate.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Stubborn, snarly male.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

In my industry, a shirt and a shoe are still made the exact same way they were 80 years ago.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.