China Mieville Quotes

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

On a personal level, change is a hard thing for me.

I use the transition of the airport, the flying from one place to another to really let go of the -isms, and the ideas that I have as an individual and kind of adapt and begin to morph.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

As I change and grow, different things excite me and I just follow where that leads me.

I'm always reinventing myself.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can