I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.
I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world.
