stuff tagged with "change"
Every life is organized around a small number of events that either propel us or bring us to a grinding halt. We spend the years between these episodes benefiting or suffering from their consequences until the arrival of the next forceful moment.
Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old… We grow old because we stop playing.
Better necessarily implies different.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
It never gets easier, you just get faster.
