Robert Hewison Quotes

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

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.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

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.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

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

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

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

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

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.

We can't be beholden to the past.

In life you cannot be captured by the past. If you're not prepared to change for the future, you will stagnate.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.