Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Change is like to surfing. You can't just paddle into life, stand still and expect to stay on top of your board. The waves of change will knock you off and drag you under. Some people even think changes are fun! You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you'll need to change.

Every change is being forced upon us.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

When times change, so must we.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.