Alexandra Stoddard Quotes

Without deviation progress is not possible.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

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

I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

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.

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.

I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

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.

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

Any project that I put out, I never want it to sound like the first one. It can have some vibes or stuff that matches, but I want it to be growth, progression, and you can't be comfortable when you're growing. If it feels good and it sounds good, it's good.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

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.

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

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.