Top 100 Reinvent Quotes
#1. If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
Idries Shah
#2. The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.
Paul Theroux
#3. You've never thought of me that way, not ever, so don't go trying to reinvent history now when I have somebody.
Jenny Han
#4. As the staggered lines rushed past him, the space between what we predict and what will happen. And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself.
John Green
#5. Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.
Vijender Singh
#6. Sensible people reinvent themselves every ten years.
Jeff Goins
#8. I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
James Frey
#9. You cannot mistake this
You cannot reinvent this moment
You cannot call this love
It is so much more
Coco J. Ginger
#11. I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.
Will Smith
#12. 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.
Leos Carax
#13. That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.
Amanda Tapping
#14. People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.
Esmeralda Santiago
#15. We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
David Suzuki
#16. Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
Mireille Guiliano
#17. I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
Stephen Fry
#18. The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift.
Anne Rice
#19. Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.
Jodi Picoult
#20. I might reinvent myself to strangers, but to this day, as far as my family is concerned, I'm still the one most likely to set your house on fire.
David Sedaris
#21. Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.
Scott D. Anthony
#22. There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.
Joan Larkin
#23. I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.
Lenny Abrahamson
#25. The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.
Stephen Kinzer
#26. I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.
Kathleen Hanna
#27. I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.
Stephen R. Bissette
#28. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else's image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself. School
Bell Hooks
#29. ... it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.
Carol Shields
#30. Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.
Jean Fautrier
#31. You have to reinvent love.
Thalia
#32. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
Daniel Gordis
#33. You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
Karl Lagerfeld
#34. Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
Simon Mainwaring
#35. Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
Mason Cooley
#36. I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.
Akon
#37. When I encounter a problem - something that's not quite right with a product - I enjoy breaking it down in my mind and exploring possible alternative solutions: Why this? Why not that? I apply the latest in technology and design to reinvent that product and solve my frustrations.
Tony Fadell
#38. I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
Damien Hirst
#39. And we were making a film I truly believed in, and the message of the film is "How do you make love stay?" Because it doesn't matter if someone has a memory or not, you have to reinvent love every day.
Drew Barrymore
#40. One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.
Lil' Kim
#41. There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision.
Jane Yolen
#42. I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
Hayden Christensen
#43. I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
Robin S. Sharma
#44. I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself
Ralph Lauren
#45. You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game
Madonna Ciccone
#46. I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible
Les Brown
#47. I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
Patti Smith
#48. We need to reinvent itself
We make mistakes,
But to give others the blame of own fault
While we do not recognize own fault
and continue to blame others
Until then we can not succeed in life..!!
Shubham Singh
#49. When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
Billy Corgan
#50. Throw away too much of your past and you abandon the person who walked those days. When you pare away at yourself you can reinvent, that's true enough, but such whittling always seems to reveal a lesser man, and promises to leave you with nothing at the end.
Mark Lawrence
#51. I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.
Meagan Earls
#52. It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#53. It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.
Nikki Rowe
#54. Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Satya Nadella
#55. New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.
Siri Hustvedt
#56. Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
Simon Sinek
#57. Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
Jane Campion
#58. L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
Caroline Leavitt
#60. As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.
Nirmalya Kumar
#62. The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prevent sharing information, enforcing borders and protecting citizens.
David Ignatius
#64. You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
Yo-Yo Ma
#65. I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
Halle Berry
#66. I'd worn Joe's Jeans since I was young, so it was cool to be able to reinvent the brand and be able to be part of it.
Bella Hadid
#67. 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
#68. Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.
Auliq Ice
#69. I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.
Michael Ondaatje
#70. It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
Zaha Hadid
#71. I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Richard Powers
#72. You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg
#73. Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent ... or just invent ... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
Nicholas Haslam
#74. Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Walter Darby Bannard
#75. As we reinvent our life endlessly we should open our minds to the infinite possibilities that do exist.
Steven Redhead
#76. I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.
Matt Smith
#77. I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
Helena Bonham Carter
#78. Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
Diane Sawyer
#79. The can take everything you own- your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.
Yasmina Khadra
#80. I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
Dan Savage
#81. You watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from
Steve Vai
#82. We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.
Steven Burd
#83. It suggests that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it.
Jeremy McCarter
#84. Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.
Nolan Bushnell
#85. Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves
Ralph Lauren
#86. Reinvent Yourself.
Redesign Yourself.
Reform Yourself.
Restore Yourself.
and if something is left of you till then
Appreciate Yourself.
Adhish Mazumder
#87. The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.
Colin Firth
#88. We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.
Mike Quigley
#89. Fashion changes. Everyone in fashion changes. I think it's important to change it up and reinvent yourself every now and again.
Eliza Doolittle
#90. I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.
Vincent Gallo
#91. It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali
#92. I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
Patrick Warburton
#93. The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#94. The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste ... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory
Sunita Narain
#95. Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels
Pearl Zhu
#96. In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
Ani DiFranco
#97. Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
Michael Simkins
#98. We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.
Howard Schultz
#99. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#100. You are never too old to reinvent yourself.
Steve Harvey
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