Steve Blank Quotes

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.

My life is going to change. I feel it.

When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Everything is going to change.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.