Pivot Quotes

“The transformative power of new thinking is a catalyst for diversity of thought, innovation, and transformation, shaping our future, enriching our experience, and allowing us to pivot and adjust course. ("The freedom of new thinking")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“There's a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around”
― Adam Grant, Think again: the power of knowing what you don’t know

“Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Accept the fact that you are the pivot along which the loads of your efforts will turn. Acknowledge yourself as the chairperson at the center of affairs management for your dreams. Take the chair and be at the fore-front.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Where we are going, someone else is there and/or has been there. Where we are now is where someone else will be.”
― Dwight Thompson, Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I

“Just be good. Baby you are a queen. Give wisdom a chance to be seen.”
― Dwight Thompson

“Pivot your perspective.”
― Robin S. Baker

“[About his pivot from George Washington University to New York University.] Then based solely on Shari's (a friend of a girlfriend) playful provocation, I auditioned for the theater program at NYU. ... This was an idiotic idea, all things considered. When I eventually pitched it to my parents on the phone, my mother shrieked what a mistake I was making. My dad just listened. ... {H]e said to my mother, 'Let's here him out.' I knew something other than money was behind that. Here was a man who had short-circuited his own dreams in order to provide for his family. 'You'll never be young enough to do this again,' he said.”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“I did not choose the pen, the pen first choose me. I did not have to look for God, He first found me. Now I'm about that Life, Faith, Love and Family, I let the Business be last because money can never make you happy.”
― Dwight Thompson, Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I

“The Hardest Part of being Black is not the way I watch my words around different people or how I feel like it's me against a wide array of enemies in an ongoing fight that's socio-economic and geo-political. It’s the sense of not being free enough, of (even in moments of happiness) not being able to enjoy a good meal or a hard victory or deserved peace or a beautiful mountain vista before it is snatched away from me.”
― Dwight Thompson, Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I

“I know me God and I know you see my heart
I ain't afraid, nothing will tear us apart”
― Dwight Thompson, Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I

“The key they teach you is always the first thing I should learn. Money is not measured in the time I spend but in the profit you earn.”
― Dwight Thompson, Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I

“Like being able to stand one foot in the rough seas knee deep and sinking. Still reach out a hand to another sister drowning.”
― Dwight Thompson, Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I

“Live a solution based life. You're not stuck. You can pivot at anytime.”
― Christine Willson, The Screen Saver

“The pivot is the official startup way of saying, “Well, that didn’t work, so now we’re going to pretend this was the plan all along.”
Investors are conditioned to love pivots: because it means you’re still trying, even if you have no idea where you’re going.
So go ahead, pivot like your startup’s life depends on it, because, spoiler, it probably does.”
― Renata Škarpa, Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.