The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.
The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
Duration is not a test of true or false.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the f...
You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.