Change Aversion Quotes

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

England is a slow moving country, reluctant to change—deeply reluctant to change.

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

I think people are scared of progress and change.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

I'm like a kid, so I try to avoid haircuts as much as possible.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Changing course implies an admission that the previous course was incorrect, and no administration likes to do that.

I like progress but I hate change.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Once we become wealthy, we tend to move away from what made us wealthy.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

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.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.