Leo Szilard Quotes

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Leave. Roll the world around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful world, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I believe that change keeps you young.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I have to reinvent myself.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.