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Quotes About Reinvention

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
~ Dylan McDermott
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
~ Sam Raimi
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
~ Scott Putesky
Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.
~ Stephen Covey
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
~ Mark Twain
He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.
~ Mark Twain
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
There was no trace of the slim, attractive girl that she had been.
~ Arundhati Roy
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
~ Augusten Burroughs
If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.
~ Spencer Johnson
superior in its ways, splendid in its luxuries, the place to go to spend your fortune, write your poetry, find (or forget) a romance, restore your health, reinvent yourself, or regroup after having conquered vast swaths of Italy, Spain, and Greece over the course of a Herculean decade.
~ Stacy Schiff
I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.
~ Stephen Fry
I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.
~ Lil' Kim
I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.
~ Katy Perry
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
~ Katherine Paterson
I had a choice. I was Louisa Clark from New York or Louisa Clark from Stortfold. Or there might be a whole other Louisa I hadn't yet met. The key was making sure that anyone you allowed to walk beside you didn't get to decide which you were, and pin you down like a butterfly in a case. The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again.
~ Jojo Moyes
The key was making sure that anyone you allowed to walk beside you didn't get to decide which you were, and pin you down like a butterfly in a case. The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again.
~ Jojo Moyes
The key was making sure that anyone you allowed to walk beside you didn't get to decide which you were, and pin you down a like a butterfly in a case. The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again.
~ Jojo Moyes
La clave consistía en asegurarse de que nadie a quien permitieras caminar a tu lado decidiera quién eras y te etiquetara, como a una mariposa en una caja. La clave era saber que siempre podías encontrar de algún modo la forma de volver a reinventarte.
~ Jojo Moyes
I love the fact that every day I get to reimagine who I want to be.
~ Jojo Moyes
Self-fashioning is the work we are all given, and we dutifully comply with the prescription continually to reinvent ourselves and manage our intricate identities. As Zygmunt Bauman has intimated, we may not grasp that to decline this endless work is not an option.
~ Jonathan Crary
I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
~ Emma Watson
This is also common with pivots; it is not necessary to throw out everything that came before and start over. Instead, it's about repurposing what has been built and what has been learned to find a more positive direction.
~ Eric Ries