Quotes About Change

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

We're living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

It is important to move on from the laurels of the past. I can't let success go to my head.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

For me, success is being happy. I used to think it was lots of houses, lots of record sales, lots of stories to tell. But some massive life changes, getting a divorce and my dad dying, led to a huge period of reflection.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.