Book of Sirach Quotes

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

Being 'Strictlyfied' is the opposite to who I am normally, but on this show, you definitely have to go with the flow.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Disparaging public opinion is ... a necessary prelude to ignoring it.

Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.