Irwin Shaw Quotes

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

You could ask yourself, 'Hey, when you were 20, are you the same person?' You're not. You may have the same values, you might look a little older, you might have some things that are the same, but your heart, everything about you, starts growing, changing - good or bad. It just depends on how you approach life.

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Life is a work in progress.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.