Tom Colicchio Quotes

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

Any project that I put out, I never want it to sound like the first one. It can have some vibes or stuff that matches, but I want it to be growth, progression, and you can't be comfortable when you're growing. If it feels good and it sounds good, it's good.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.

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.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I love change, I need it.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Don't be content with things as they are.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.