Michael Crichton Quotes

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

Change means the unknown.

I don't know what's on the other side.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.

When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.

Change is very scary.

Any time you make a change, and a major change, as you try to establish something, there's a lot of question marks there on what's going to happen moving forward.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

Every change is being forced upon us.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.