Quotes About Reinvention

After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.

I like women who transform themselves. It's what I do.

Traditionally, in the technology industry, companies need to re-invent themselves every 3-7 years to survive. If the company misses one transition, it can still recover, but if it misses two, it is usually fatal.

In short, businesses that 'get small again' die.

In something like an instant the man had changed his life. He reinvented his relationship to the world around him in a way that is considered normal only in California.

For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn't, someone else would.

That there was nothing more assuring than a mask. Under the mask she could rewrite herself into any place, in any form.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.

With my first single, 'AM to PM,' I was just this cute 18-year-old. But 'cute' didn't get me older roles, and 'cute' wasn't selling records. I wanted people to see that I'd grown up, so I did 'Dip It Low.'

That first match there in Dallas for the G1 was the first time they'd really seen me work as a singles competitor in a really long time. This was kind of a coming-out party. I took it as an opportunity to really kind of reinvent myself. And really start the journey that is The Murderhawk Monster.

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.

I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.

I have a whole second act of ARTPOP and I love it.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

And it's been a long time since she's "felt like herself," as Americans would say. At most, she has an occasional window of relaxation. But the longer she stays in this line of work and the more times she reinvents herself—replacing one facade with another, sometimes lingering in shadow, sometimes hiding in plain sight—the less she remembers her true self or even the concept of having her own identity. That will change soon, a vow she has made to herself.

I think I'm gonna get me new Bob Dylan next week, get me a new Bob Dylan and use him. Here's the new Bob Dylan, see how long he lasts.

This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now that it was over, I could turn the past into anything I wanted.

Life viewed from nine different camera angles; life played at nine tempos. Mixed, montaged; multiple. In the course of one lifetime. Maybe that's what reincarnation was all about. Reinvention.

What if I take you apart and turn you into a toaster oven, how would you like that tin can?

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with

I invented myself.

Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

A man can be reforged.