Miuccia Prada Quotes

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

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

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I always do something that I've never done before.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.