Jay Samit Quotes

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

You have to reinvent yourself.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

I have always believed in reinventing myself and taking risks.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.