LaMarcus Aldridge Quotes

I don't like change that much.

I think people don't really like change.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

I think we stick with what we know.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

I hate change more than almost anything.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.