Robyn Davidson Quotes

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

Some people are just weird when you're on a plane - it's the same during a renovation. It stresses them out.

I unsettle all things.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.