Top 100 Reinvent Quotes

#1. I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all.
It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from
creeping in.

Akshay Kumar

#2. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Iman

#3. Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

Ian Buruma

#4. A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

Nicole Brossard

#5. Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

Les Brown

#6. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

Steven Johnson

#7. 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

Justin Spring

#8. What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

Steve Jobs

#9. In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.

Hal Rothman

#10. Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Faith Hill

#11. You don't have to reinvent the wheel ... just steal the hubcaps.

Michael P. Naughton

#12. I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.

Channing Tatum

#13. All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Scott McCloud

#14. We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

Merrie Spaeth

#15. I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Mariah Carey

#16. 'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Joe Dempsie

#17. A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

Tom Peters

#18. Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

Lauren Beukes

#19. I like to reinvent myself - it's part of my job.

Karl Lagerfeld

#20. Some people wish they could have invented the wheel. But I'm trying to reinvent the wheelbarrow, to more efficiently haul around my bullshit.

Jarod Kintz

#21. Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.

Pat Boone

#22. But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

Dustin Hoffman

#23. I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

Henry Rollins

#24. No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

Steven J. Lawson

#25. We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.

Horst Rechelbacher

#26. To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Jurgen Moltmann

#27. Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

Tony Hsieh

#28. With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.

Trent Reznor

#29. I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

Philip Kitcher

#30. I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

James Taylor

#31. Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

Lester Holt

#32. When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

George Lopez

#33. The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Daniel Goleman

#34. Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Bill Gates

#35. The world was bursting with opportunity. If you didn't like who you were, it was time to reinvent yourself and try again. It was a disservice to the universe to cheat everyone of your talents. And

Fran Seen

#36. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator ... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Steve Jobs

#37. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

Akira Mori

#38. If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.

Eric Thomas

#39. I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Ben Vereen

#40. We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You're not going to teach them; they're going to reinvent it.

Bill Ayers

#41. If a product or enterprise doesn't constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier.

Bill Bryson

#42. We have to reinvent the wheel every once every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors.

Bruce Joyce

#43. We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

Marvin Sapp

#44. Your legacy from him is the realm of infinite speculation. You're free to reinvent yourself at will.

Margaret Atwood

#45. We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

Satya Nadella

#46. The idea was to reinvent mortgages by bundling thousands of them together as the backing for new and alluring securities that could be sold as alternatives to traditional government and corporate bonds - in short, to convert mortgages into bonds.

Niall Ferguson

#47. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact.

Joseph Altuzarra

#48. You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

John Powell

#49. Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

Stephen Covey

#50. I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

Oscar Isaac

#51. People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Pamela Anderson

#52. People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Eminem

#53. The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Lucy Punch

#54. It is the mark of ancient societies that contemporary tribulations reinvent old fears.

Yanis Varoufakis

#55. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Ted Danson

#56. I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

Nikki Sixx

#57. The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Tim O'Reilly

#58. My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.

Wilbur Ross

#59. When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.

John Shelby Spong

#60. For every summer & every summer after.
Promise your-self to bare a bit more.
To take things to a new level.
To reinvent. To reflect back.
To keep things humble.
To tie up loose ends &
Let the Sparks Fly...

Jennifer Pierre

#61. Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.

Thomas Narofsky

#62. He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

Michael Chabon

#63. I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse.

Stella Soleil

#64. Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this. That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mindset.

Robert Spector

#65. I had never before seen somebody I admired understand what was expected of him, choose to act otherwise, and be happier for it. For the first time in my life I realized that it was possible to reinvent oneself.

Joel Derfner

#66. Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

Gunter Grass

#67. Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

Ernie J Zelinski

#68. Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

Bob Parsons

#69. One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

Peter Diamandis

#70. To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

Mike Epps

#71. We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

Guy Laliberte

#72. I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

Stephen Fry

#73. The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#74. It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

Zaha Hadid

#75. If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Dennis Quaid

#76. 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

#77. Death is the great disruptor; it thrusts us opposite life's mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth; from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew.

B.G. Bowers

#78. When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

RuPaul

#79. I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly believe you have to entertain yourself in order to relate it the right way to your audience.

J. B. Smoove

#80. There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.

Erin McCarthy

#81. People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

#82. You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts ...
Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

Bruce Jenvey

#83. The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

Melanie Fiona

#84. The status quo is not your friend; in a competitive, down economy, the absence of change means death. Those who coast with current best practices may enjoy a period of time where it works. But if you don't reinvent yourself, your competitors will do it for you.

Anonymous

#85. There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

Shia Labeouf

#86. To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

Karl Lagerfeld

#87. After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

Mary Oliver

#88. The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

N. Scott Momaday

#89. We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.

Barry Humphries

#90. But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you're going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

Claire Cook

#91. In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

Becki Newton

#92. Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

Adrienne Bailon

#93. We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Paul Haggis

#94. You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

Jimmy Fallon

#95. You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

Bill Cosby

#96. I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

Ian Jackson

#97. 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

#98. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Steven Johnson

#99. I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

Francis Ford Coppola

#100. I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

Kevin Hart

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