Fred Emery quotes

Fred Emery quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?”
-- Fred Emery

#Change Quotes #Why Not Quotes #Adapting Quotes

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jan 14, 2011
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
“Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.”
“Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?”
“I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?”

Source : "Ovechkin fashions himself a designer" by Paul Hunter, The Toronto Star, p. S02, June 12, 2008.
“As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?”
“If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is”
“There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?”
“I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.”

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