Alexander Wang Quotes

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking about where you are, what needs to be done now.

Think about the past to learn, but move forward.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

Obviously, I have to enjoy all I have. People depend on you, and now I can look back at everything I've gone through to get here with a different perspective.

You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.

Music changes, life changes. It's like Jay Z said: 'If people like the old Jay, then go listen to the old Jay.' I always heard that, but never understood it.

You tend to take your journey for granted after a while, but when I pause and look back, I feel blessed that I had so many opportunities.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.