Gary Herbert Quotes

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

We have differences. That’s why we’re here. That’s what Congress does.

We are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation.

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Differences challenge assumptions.

I think America has always been polarized.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Change brings opportunity.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.