Changing Course Quotes:

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

- Jane Fonda

source: Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

topic: Mistake, Consistency, Admitting, Changing Course

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Dartmouth, Memorable Graduation, Changing Course

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

- Lewis Thomas

source: Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

topic: Years, Mind, Experts, Changing Course

The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.

- Stephen Batchelor

topic: Buddhist, Powerful, Teaching, Changing Course

One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Dream, Jobs, Fall, Changing Course

Changing course is never easy.

- Brian Sandoval

topic: Easy, Changing Course

Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning.

- Samuel Daniel

source: Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.215

topic: Running, Circles, Glory, Changing Course, Vicissitudes