Quotes About Change

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

I first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager's telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

It's quite common for a television show to start off as one thing and end up as something completely different. There are so many cooks in the kitchen - the network, the studio.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

I do realize that television shows end.