Reinvention Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Friends

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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• The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

  Bob Black

  Inspiration, Mean, Maps

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Mind, Want

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Motivational, Business, Inspiration

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1951). “The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil”

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• Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspirational, Mother, Fearlessness

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Scar Tissue, Oneself

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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• 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

  Art, Nature, Pain

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

  John le Carre

  Order, Chaos, Stills

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• What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

  Theodore Roethke

  Inspirational, Faith, Teaching

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.93, Copper Canyon Press

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

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Able, Juncture, Critical

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• 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

  Fashion, Mean, Passionate

  "10 Things To Know About Kristen Bell, The Sweet Actress Who Loves Potty Humor" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moments

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

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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

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• The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Bizarre

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• Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'

  Stuart Kauffman

  Believe, Creativity, Six

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

  Alberto Villoldo

  Unique, Opportunity, People

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• Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving, Birth, Awareness

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

  Fashion, Taken, Keys

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• 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

  Roots, Knowing, Design

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• 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

  Desire, Sirens, Arise

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• 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

  Distance, Reality, Would Be

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