Transformation Quotes - Page 14

• Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

  Dallas Willard

  Personal Transformation, Succeed, Projects

  "Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation".

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• My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

  Honor Harger

  Jobs, Technology, Agency

  "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Real, Ideas

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Views, Style, Management

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• Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.

  Terence McKenna

  Order, Mushrooms, Space

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• The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today

  Jonathon Porritt

  Climate, Banking, World

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Deep Thought, Custody, Today

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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, Alternatives

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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• Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.

  Robert Grudin

  Self, Imagination, Challenges

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

  Zhuangzi

  Deeds And Words, World, Accord

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• Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Self, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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• Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Victory, Pilots, Cry

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• Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

  John Granger

  Love, Loyalty, Sacrifice

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• Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of the sort of wholesale transformation of species that Darwin envisioned as the natural product of the evolutionary process. Few saw any reason to demur - though it is a startling fact that ...most species remain recognizably themselves, virtually unchanged throughout their occurrence in geological sediments of various ages.

  Niles Eldredge

  Age, Fossils, Saws

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• I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.

  Julia Serano

  People, Details, Want

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.

  Walter W. Powell

  Media, Organization, Worry

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Tired, Years

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• I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Optimistic, Rapids

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• Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Past, Compassion

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• We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Reality, Psychics

  "The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

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• The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

  Herb Asher

  Reality, Long, Economic

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• Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, People, Essentials

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

  Michael Shannon

  Design, Creative, Fundamentals

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• The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

  Vittorio Gregotti

  Essence, Design, Tasks

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