Reinvention Quotes

1. "Advice from a CaterpillarChew your way into a new world.Munch leaves. Molt. Rest. Moltagain. Self-reinvention is everything.Spin many nests. Cultivate stingingbristles. Don't get sentimentalabout your discarded skins. Growquickly. Develop a yen for nettles.Alternate crumpling and climbing. Relyon your antennae. Sequester poisonsin your body for use at a later date.When threatened, emit foul odorsin self-defense. Behave cryptically to confuse predators: change colors, spit,or feign death. If all else fails, taste terrible."
Author: Amy Gerstler

2. "The Reinvention and Revolution of our Entrepreneurship and Leadership lays in the rebirth of our mind's eye."
Author: Anyaele Sam Chiyson

3. "The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps."
Author: Bob Black

4. "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."
Author: Chris O'Donnell

5. "While for critics of sprawl the generic signifies a loss of local identity and connection to place, for Koolhaas it represents an opportunity for reinvention and fantasy free from nostalgia or provincial habit. He admires the generic's accessibility, impermanence, economy of imagination, and malleable lack of authenticity or moralizing agenda."
Author: Graham Owen

6. "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."
Author: James Surowiecki

7. "Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change."
Author: Jane Pauley

8. "Positivity is the father of reinvention"
Author: Josh Stern

9. "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."
Author: Mark Doty

10. "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."
Author: Meg Wolitzer

11. "What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention."
Author: Merrie Spaeth

12. "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."
Author: Naomi Campbell

13. "Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!"
Author: Phil Wohl

14. "Making you believe what he wanted you to believe was his very reason for being. Maybe his only reason. I was intrigued by the way he turned events, or hints I had given him about people, into reality--that is, his kind of reality. This obsessive reinvention of the real never stopped, what-could-be having always to top what is. ...I began to wonder which was real, the woman in the book or the one I was pretending to be upstairs. Neither of them was particularly "me." I was acting just as much upstairs; I was not myself just as much Maria in the book was not myself. Perhaps she was. I began not to know which was true and which was not, like a writer who comes to believe that he's imagined what he hasn't. ...The book began living in me all the time, more than my everyday life."
Author: Philip Roth

15. "The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me."
Author: Robert Smith

16. "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."
Author: Sarah Dessen

17. "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."
Author: Seth Godin

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