Quotes About Change

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

It's not like 'Print versus Digital - only one will survive.' We live in a hybrid world now, and I think the near-term future is also hybrid.

Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good versus evil, can you change yourself? These themes resonate for everyone.

A trade is a trade, but it's different as far as summertime versus in the season.

From the inception of this series, Mike and I were very interested in exploring the theme of tradition versus progress. We always like the struggle for balance to be a central theme of our stories, so as we introduce all of these changes to the 'Avatar' world, we get to see how people react and try to realign themselves.

Especially going from an attacking player to a defensive player, your whole mindset has to change. You have to work on one-v-one defending versus one-v-one attacking.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

What I've always really appreciated about MCU superheroes versus elsewhere is that they are trying to disrupt the idea of what a superhero can be.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.