Reinvent Quotations

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different.

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

I was floored by how bad it was. I don't think it's realistic to expect that this is going to work itself out by the second quarter. This is not an opportunity to buy on a weakness. This is a time to stay on the sidelines. Too many things have to go right. Intel has to reinvent itself very quickly, and you tend not to bet that a supertanker can turn on a dime.

Some of it is inexperience. It's a different game. We're trying to build habit-forming things -- close-out drills, contesting shots. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel.

One thing we feel strongly about as we move into the future: Our technologies will change, and our businesses will reinvent themselves - but we will be true to three things: our customers, people and the community.

She had begun to reinvent the role of the monarchy for the 21st century, starting when she shook hands with an AIDS victim,

She will have to find a way to reinvent herself, and the public is ready for that. People are fascinated still, and there is a way for her to capitalize on that.

I can't reinvent the game and I certainly don't have all the answers. But I do know one thing: In many instances, insecure leadership does not surround themselves with the best people available because they're kind of concerned they're hiring their successor. My philosophy is, if you win, there's so much glory out there for everybody that you really don't need to take it all.

Four guards isn't as frightening, four really good guards is what makes it a challenge. They're guys are really good players. They've done this all year, it's not like they're trying to reinvent themselves mid-year like some unfortunate souls. They've been doing this all year and they're really good at it.

If you abolish the Cape Cod Commission today, you would have to reinvent it tomorrow.

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

I don't think people were looking at (the special session) to reform Louisiana government from top to bottom. I think the proof now is in how they manage the recovery ... and I don't think they have to reinvent government to carry forward.

I don't try to reinvent the wheel too much.

What we haven't been is a very consistent team in all those areas. At least we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Somewhere throughout the season, we've done those things. Now it's a matter of putting them together.

What will reinvent Alpine is if we create too many rules, create too much of a scene that obscures the value of a very cool, elegant, free sport.

If we are going to have to work until 70, we are all going to have to reinvent our careers at least once.

I firmly believe this is an industry that has to reinvent its reason for existing. Companies will have to change what they need to sell, change how they sell, and therefore change their culture.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

I think every year you go back to school, it's an opportunity to reinvent yourself. In that time in your life, it's an opportunity. Stephanie did that. She came back, and she was a different person.

It is becoming an entertainment company, not a computer company. People don't say 'Apple Computer' anymore; they say 'Apple.' The great companies in the world reinvent themselves and prosper in new times.

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

Our strategy going forward is to reinvent our team. We've got some great athletes that will bring size, basketball I.Q. and real excitement.

I think it's now clear to everybody the Internet has arrived and everybody is talking about how to reinvent their businesses to take advantage of e-commerce, ... While many companies talk about this opportunity, no company is better positioned to take advantage of this situation than AOL.

You have this ... amazing opportunity to reinvent hospitality.

We don't have time to reinvent the wheel.

The adult market might have more longevity, as they go after watches and cellular phones, lots of different things, when the video comes out that will certainly reinvent that wheel all over again too.

We have one of the best Web sites in the world, but it's rooted in the first digital wave. We need to reinvent it, fill it with dynamic audiovisual content, personalize it, open it up to user-friendly material.

We need to reinvent (BBC Online), fill it with dynamic audio-visual content, personalize it, open it up to user-generated content.

We focus on practical solutions that don't reinvent the wheel.

We had to kind of reinvent it, ... Saturday Night Live.

We don't take ourselves too seriously. I don't think we're trying to be anything that we're not. We're not, like, trying to reinvent the wheel or anything.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

We didn't want to reinvent ourselves with the new album. We felt that we had carved our own turf on the first record and we wanted to take everything we did and make it better, ... Version 2.0.

There is a whole host of applications that need to know user data. A lot of programmers want to know about users without having to reinvent the wheel each time. The applications are better off having access to the user information.

The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based on that philosophy.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel this season - we just want to make girls look gorgeous and feminine.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. The principal and teachers literally went door to door inviting parents to participate. They found most parents had no idea the school was so dependent on them.

There are a lot of people trying to reinvent the wheel in different localities. If you're the mayor of Poughkeepsie or Atlanta or San Diego, it's not easy to know what the best practice is.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28. It's very difficult to think of new ways of blowing things up. It's the journey that's the thing--finding a new journey for the character.

We have created well over 100 units of instruction and posted them on the BMW web site. They are available to anybody who wants to use it. You do not have to go and reinvent the wheel.

We don't need to go back and reinvent anything right now. I'm not at all disappointed with where we're at. We compete and we're a real unselfish team.

We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

We're not going to reinvent the wheel this year. We're just going to keep doing what we've been doing all along.

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

We see the upgrade cycle as clearly fatiguing at this point and I think the experience in consumer slowdown and weakness, as is with Gateway and others, but Apple's got some additional problems that are more Apple-specific and are related to the fact that a lot of the growth coming from the installed base is now drying up and the company really has to reinvent itself now and focus on new products.

You have to reinvent yourself each year, ... What helped us was that there was some turnover each year.

There definitely is a way for them to prosper in the future and reinvent themselves. I just don't know what it is right now.

Browsing is a secondary feature that is very important on today's modern devices, but no one wants to spend the time and effort to reinvent the browsing experience when there are already great solutions on the market, ... Nokia is using a best-of-breed browser without the expense of having to build it all themselves.

We did a lot of research and consulted with our sister courses. We were not looking to reinvent the wheel. It turned out very good for their courses.

A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do you want someone who will maintain company culture or reinvent it?

Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.

As long as you're respected among your peers, that's all that matters, and he has my utmost respect. He's proven himself. He continues to reinvent himself. Everything he does on that court, you'd best believe every other player recognizes it. He is a true All-Star and one of the elite point guards.

A three-way alliance means the FDP would have to broadly reinvent itself. Opposition continues to be an option for us.

That movie has this kind of old fashioned franchise that they wanted to reinvent and reintroduce to the new generation of kids and teenagers.

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

FedEx is looking for ways to reinvent itself. This gives me some hope.

Essentially, they're going to reinvent Tulane. The kinds of changes they are likely to make would be the most significant restructuring of any American college or university in the last century.

Everything we're doing right now, we're at the beginning stages. As much as you try to reinvent who you are and give your team the best chance to win, the most important thing is that we're in mid-February and we've played 21 games and had 80-some practices with the same intent, the same player and the same system. The last thing you want to do is put a team on the floor that's thinking their way through things. We're trying to keep things simple.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

This will go down as the shot heard round the world for the home-audio business. We've been trying to reinvent the stereo since we were born, but little companies can't create new categories by themselves. We need someone with a bigger megaphone, so we're rooting for Apple.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact.

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.

The best thing about a series is that it provides you with a continuing frame-you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you write a book.

The best thing is we never felt down about anything. We just weather it and reinvent ourselves.

That is the danger with influenza compared to any other virus I know that it can suddenly transform itself, reinvent itself and spread around the world.

Anytime you reinvent yourself or do something you want to do, there are going to be people who don't understand it, because it's you. I think overall it was a good response and it's doing really well right now.

It takes time for old industries to reinvent themselves. I think we are seeing that in the music industry.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.

I love the fact of the dual association of how long an artist can last and reinvent himself and with the right copyright and arrangement, how many ways a song can be reinvented.

They have to be the person that continues to reinvent themselves, to add new skills, to be energetic, to be forward-thinking.

It was not our place to reinvent the investigative wheel,

It's a neat series and a pretty even playing field because the crews don't have a lot of time to reinvent the wheel. The cars are a little tail-happy and there are varying levels of (driver) talent, so it makes it exciting for the fans to watch.

After my divorce I was really down in the dumps. I wanted to reinvent myself.

A season's still a season. Let's not reinvent the wheel. We're starting this year with the same guys and the same attitude we did the year before, and the year before that.

This is a golden opportunity for the newspapers to get a blank sheet and reinvent themselves.

And many of them haven't saved. But this isn't a crisis if we reinvent retirement. Most Boomers look at retirement as a new chapter in their lives, to be new people and try new things, rather than a phase of rest and relaxation.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

It's all the flow of the game. We may try to limit their touches as many times as possible, but we aren't going to reinvent the wheel.

Every band thinks that they're gonna reinvent the wheel and throw traditional song structures out the window, but we've found that we work well with and are challenged by traditional structures.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

We kind of had to reinvent him as a sprinter, and he's doing well.