The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren't true.
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.
I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.
People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.
Some people don't want to be helped, they want to do what they're doing, it's all they know.
People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.
People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.
Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.
Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
In America, they don't need to look outside their country for anything, so they definitely don't need to look elsewhere for rappers with weird accents that they have to get accustomed to, which is like homework to them.
For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.
When I feel risk-averse, I am much more likely to surround myself with middle-aged, professional, southern females; I just am.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that's familiar, in which I'm doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.
