Reinvention's Quotes

#1. Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.

Darren Star

#2. After a few more minutes of daydreaming about how fabulous I could become, I look down at the heading on my paper: Janey's Reinvention Plan. It appears lonely at the top of the page. I should probably add some bullets beneath, but I've never been much of a list maker.

J.C. Patrick

#3. What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Merrie Spaeth

#4. The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

Mark Doty

#5. December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.

Alberto Villoldo

#6. a chance for total reinvention,

Eleanor Catton

#7. Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.

Auliq Ice

#8. It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Naomi Campbell

#9. Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

Charles Duhigg

#10. The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that. I didn't want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.

Adrian Hodges

#11. A homeward-bounder is a chance for total reinvention, Mr. Nilssen," he said at last. "Find a nugget, and a man can buy his own life. That kind of promise isn't offered in the civil world.

Eleanor Catton

#12. Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

Claire Cook

#13. Trading is a sport of survival, reinvention, and perseverance, even for the successful trader.

Mike Bellafiore

#14. The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.

Keith Teare

#15. I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again.

Carl Sandburg

#16. There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives ...

Salman Rushdie

#17. I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#18. When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

Claire Cook

#19. P53-knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless,impatient,continuing,hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.

Paulo Freire

#20. There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

Bill Pullman

#21. In C++, reinvention is its own reward.

Erik Naggum

#22. I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

John Le Carre

#23. 'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

Darren Star

#24. I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#25. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Kristin Hannah

#26. The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

Octavio Paz

#27. Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

Larry Wall

#28. Reinvention is no rushed religion.

Erica Alex

#29. I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Julian Fellowes

#30. I am so thankful to MOTHER for making my ordinary life extraordinary. MOTHER - Multiplied Opportunities Through Her Endless Reinvention.

Olarewaju Oladipo

#31. I don't know when the boys
began to walk away with parts of myself
in their sticky hands; when loving
became a process of subtraction. Or why,
having given up what seems so much,
I'm willing to lose even more - erasing
all this body's known, relearning it with you.

Melissa Stein

#32. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Carolyn Wells

#33. I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think.

Morag Joss

#34. (The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.

Bruce Frankel

#35. Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.

Seth Godin

#36. When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention. We encourage reinvention. That's what this country has that Europe does not. It's not just a crisis; it's an opportunity.

Michael Lewis

#37. Someone who is reinventing always has spare time. Part of reinvention is collecting little bits and pieces of time and carving them the way you want them to be. That is the Power of No in action: you say no to the superfluous distractions because you must find some time for you.

James Altucher

#38. Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Mario Testino

#39. I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

Chris O'Donnell

#40. AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.

Jane Pauley

#41. Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.

David Axelrod

#42. 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

#43. I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.

Kristen Bell

#44. The reinvention of the world without the reinvention of love is not a reinvention at all.

Srecko Horvat

#45. This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Taylor Swift

#46. I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

Claire Cook

#47. Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities? Hadn't we each, in the end, unmoored ourselves by cutting loose the anchors that weighed us down?

Khaled Hosseini

#48. I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Henry Rollins

#49. I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.

Rush Limbaugh

#50. There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

Claire Cook

#51. positivity is the father of reinvention

Josh Stern

#52. Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.

Claire Cook

#53. Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#54. Then it wouldn't be long before they all found themselves shocked and sad to be fully grown into their thicker, finalized adult selves with almost no chance for reinvention.

Meg Wolitzer

#55. So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known ... I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I was still in the most familiar of places. Once the setting was totally new,though, I finally could be,as well.

Sarah Dessen

#56. Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults were stupid enough to think they knew exactly who they were.

Anna Quindlen

#57. Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

Arianna Huffington

#58. The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

James Surowiecki

#59. Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!

Phil Wohl

#60. To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

Nina Easton

#61. Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

Claire Cook

#62. The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

Bob Black

#63. Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

David Bowie

#64. Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Dionne Brand

#65. Everyday is an opportunity for reinvention. Everyday you can start something new.

Guillaume Wolf

#66. Professional is an apt definition for me, professional slouch, that is. I can be very professional at seeming to do work, but the real work is trying to do as little as possible, without getting caught by Trip or any nosey busybodies.

J.C. Patrick

#67. Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

Steven Heller

#68. Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

Janice Dickinson

#69. I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

Bryan Adams

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

Mary Oliver

#71. Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Claire Cook

#72. My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Roger Daltrey

#73. The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Robert Smith

#74. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately,

Kristin Hannah

#75. Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

Jane Pauley

#76. When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

Andrea Seigel

#77. Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

Damon Galgut

#78. If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.

Conan O'Brien

#79. A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

Erik Naggum