Fran Lebowitz Quotes

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.

I always like to tweak things and push things forward.

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.