Quotes About Reinvention

There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea.

There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.

I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not so much what you've got going on at the moment. And so I embraced that. It sunk in at an early point.

In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

Men and women were able to reinvent themselves, and to derive strange new pleasures from pain and humiliation and self-distortion. Who was to say that it was right or that it was wrong?

if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

Invent a past for the present.

Our love is kind of stalled, baby. But it ain't about the sex. I'd trade the roses and the negligees If we could just connect. I go deeper when you look into my eyes. There's a place where neither one of us can hide. And it's up to us to reinvent the game. Love it when you call my name.

What she looked, Driver thought, was completely comfortable with herself, a quality uncommon enough anywhere, and one so remarkable in trendy, self-reinventive L.A., as to appear truly subversive.

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

Then they drove away, split up a few days later, and Mr. Wilkinson established a new identity. He lay low for several years in a remote part of Utah—although I suppose 'a remote part of Utah' is redundant.

When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them

The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that innovates. Risk and adventure must be re-invented against safety and comfort.

In the early 1990s I got involved with one of the more outré forms of this reinvention, known as psychogeography.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

Fantastic Negrito is a persona, an incarnation in my third phase.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

You know what? I wanna play something that is really... it changes the game. I don't wanna be the same story where it's the Charles Bronson formula, where he's getting revenge or whatever.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.