Re-Evaluation Quotes

History is always changing.

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

You're not going to reinvent yourself in the middle of a playoff series.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?'

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

I don't think you cross the line - I think you move the line.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Sometimes you're running toward your target so hard that you don't stop to reassess.

It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.