Simone Elkeles Quotes

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

I have to change to stay the same.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

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.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

I don't change. The things around me change.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.