Steve Jobs Quotes

This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.