Lorne Michaels Quotes

I always look for reinventing myself... doing something different and new.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

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

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

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.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

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.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

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.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.