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)

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

Salman Rushdie

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Robert Smith (musician)

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

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

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

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

Jane Pauley

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

Bob Black

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

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

John le Carré

In C++, reinvention is its own reward. (Erik Naggum)

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

[Guided reinvention is] striking a subtle balance between the freedom of inventing and the force of guiding, between allowing the learner to please himself and asking him to please the teacher. Moreover, the learner's free choice is already restricted by the "re” of "reinvention”. The learner shall invent something that is new to him but well-known to the guide.

Hans Freudenthal

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

Alberto Villoldo

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

Julian Fellowes

[T]he vision and anticipatory experience of transformed personal relations encourage the self-restraint vital to successful institutional reconstruction. When the government's active engagement in the defense of established institutional arrangements has been shaken by violent or peaceful means and when settled assumptions about collective identities, interests, and opportunities have come partly unstuck, institutional reinvention enjoys its favored moment. This opportunity can, nevertheless, be squandered if redistribution over material advantages takes priority over institutional reconstruction.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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

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

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

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.

Joel Silver

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention. (Merrie Spaeth)

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

Roger Daltrey

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

There's a theory that if you have an interesting childhood then you have enough material to last a lifetime. But that implies that art is always autobiographical when reinvention and imagination are the most important elements. But it doesn't hurt to have a mad family! Of course I didn't notice until I'd escaped – when I left home as a teenager on a diplomatic scholarship – how odd my family were.

Carole Morin

The process which we see is the process of an upset which forces the gradual learning of how to become unattached from everything which seemed divine and holy, the collapse of zeal for the Lord of hosts. At the same time it leads to an apprenticeship in listening to the still, small voice, and the reinvention of a new type of zeal.

James Alison