Nikki Giovanni Quotes

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

I don't believe in stasis - either you are growing or dying.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

When you are through changing, you are through.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.