Steve Burns Quotes

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

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.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

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.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

You don't get many do-overs in life.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.