Quotes About Reinvention

If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

No way! Let me tell you, I'm no Elvis. Elvis had his time. I'm Vanilla Ice, and it's my turn now.

Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults were stupid enough to think they knew exactly who they were.

The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift. But sometimes the young make terrible mistakes. The young need the wisdom of the old. The man smiled. They do and they don't, he said.

Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.

You need a formal business reinvention process. Put it in your calendar. Every three months, take your most trusted advisers, employees, backers, and even customers and get away from the phones for a little while. Start from scratch. "If we were starting over—no office, no employees, no customers—would we choose to be where we are today?" If the answer isn't, yes, then it's time to take a hard look at the path you took and the impact it has had on your business.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

There is life after acting.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

Embrace clichés, then rejuvenate them. Assemble all the visual ones associated with your brief then look at ways of reusing them, and reconnecting to their essence with new vigour.

Un hombre sin pasado puede forjar cualquier futuro»

In any case, Prometheus is in the process of reinvention. I'd like to plead our case.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

After my second and third movies, which did not click, I realised I should not do something that's too heavy.

I love showing people that I wasn't that guy, the guy in 'Will & Grace.'

There's Lindsey Graham 1.0 and then there's Lindsey Graham 2.0. I could not beat Lindsey Graham 1.0. That was the John McCain-Lindsey Graham.

The great thing about a reboot is, you can learn from the past if you care enough.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I always change my hair, but I don't like haircuts!

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.