Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.
Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.
I resist change even as I call for it.
People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.
I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.
One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.
Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.
The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!
