Change Reluctance Quotes

Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn.

I think that people are so insecure in their jobs, they're so uncertain that the people they work for really care about them, they're so uncertain about what their kids are looking at in the future, that people are reluctant to take any risks for change.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

People like change in general, but not in particular.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

Seabeck is slow to change.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

We are best pleased with reforms that are far enough away so as not to affect ourselves

Why are people afraid to try something different? Because of the scrutiny they're going to receive if it doesn't work. That stops people from trying things different a lot.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

I never change, except in my affections.

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.