Mason Cooley Change Quotations

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

Everything changes as it is written down.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

Many try to force the past to change.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

I resist change even as I call for it.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.