Shawn Wayans Quotes

Enough! We cannot live like this any longer. Everything must be done in a new way. We must reconsider our concepts, our approaches, our views of our past and our future…. It is simply impossible to live as we have lived before—intolerable, humiliating.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

Changing course is never easy.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?

When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd come off back-to-back losses - Court McGee and Stephen Thompson - and I needed to look at my roots and go back to the drawing board.

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

When you no longer feel part of the game, then you have to think about doing something else.

We've got to change the way we do things.

Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.

The Pacers were pretty up front in saying I have to go in a different direction.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.