Quotes About Reinvention

Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.

Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but still reinvented myself.

Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do.

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.

Obviously we have a sensibility that's aligned to everything we've done but we try not within certain ways to repeat ourselves.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough.

It's hard to write an Evan Hunter novel because I really am starting from scratch. I'm assuming a new voice each time. The McBain voice is set.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

I wouldn't want to go see a comedian if he was using the same jokes. So I'm not going out there trying to do the same thing that and my body's changed, my life's changed and really if people have already seen me do something a 1,000 times, 1,001 is not going to impress anybody.

That is why Chris Jericho is so impressive because he keeps reinventing himself.

Going to school, everybody expected you to be Stephanie Tanner. Establishing a separate entity from Stephanie after all those years, I did everything I could in the beginning to be everything but Stephanie Tanner.