New You Quotes

• To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Lying, Important

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Travel, New York

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• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  David Letterman

  New York, Moving, Cities

  "Late Show with David Letterman", February 9, 1984.

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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Insomnia, Islands

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• Get outside of their comfort zone and try something new. You never truly grow when you're too comfortable.

  Jacob Vargas

  Trying, Comfort, Something New

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Something New, Framework

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Giving Up, Something New, Seems

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• That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

  Lisa Alther

  Change, People, Risk

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.228, Open Road Media

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• don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

  Sara Zarr

  Mistake, New Places

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• If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Challenges, Problem

  "Sir Jonathan Ive says he is humbled by his knighthood for services to design". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.

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• When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Creative, Want

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what’s in your hand.

  Sonia Choquette

  Letting Go, Hands, Want

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

  Paul Gauguin

  Order, Childhood, Return

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

  Heinrich Rohrer

  Interesting, Overcoming, Done

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. April 9, 2008.

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• If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

  Steve Lacy

  Stars, Giving Up, People

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• ... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

  Cornelia Parker

  Jobs, Doe, Enough

  Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

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• All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Drawing, Understanding, Feelings

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life.

  Doreen Virtue

  Fall, Rooms, Seems

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• I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

  James Cameron

  Mistake, Goal, Levels

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• I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Attitude, Giving, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people to do what you've seen them do before. Until you see someone do something new, you don't know what they can.

  Carla Gugino

  People, Actors, Natural Instinct

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Past, Thinking, Week

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 15, 2014

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• Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

  Anthony Rizzo

  Games, Challenges, Something New

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• Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

  Michael Eisner

  Risk, Innovation, Trying

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• As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Children, House, Ruins

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