John Darnielle Quotes

All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

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

Evolution leads the way through desire.

Going backwards is never an option.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

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

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

I'm always moving forward.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

You must change in order to survive.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.