William Faulkner Quotes

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end - even if it's momentarily.

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

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

Change is hard, but change is good.

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

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Everything good needs replacing

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

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

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.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

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

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.