Transformation Quotes - Page 19

• The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Unity, Machines

  "Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 137, 1980.

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• Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

  Lewis Mumford

  Self, Growth, Self Transformation

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• Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

  Alice Walker

  Responsibility, Artist, World

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• However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Writing, Style, Matter

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.

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• I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

  Ashley Judd

  Dream, Thinking, Different

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• More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.

  David Cannadine

  Queens, Should Have, Sovereign

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• The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Would Be, Needs, Restoration

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• It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Reading, Pages, Really Cool

  Source: collider.com

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• The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Cancer, Goal, Body

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• Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing.
  Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you
  want, but because of what you choose to do.

  Eric Greitens

  Want, Remember, You Choose

  Eric Greitens (2015). “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

  Peter Drucker

  Rights, Important Events, America

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Apples, Stories

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" interview, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

  Steven Harrison

  Lost Everything, Understatement, Loses

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• A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. August 24, 2007.

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• With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Modern, Dentistry

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Dirty, Broken, Heaven

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• God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

  Gary Haugen

  People, Miracle, Doe

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• The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Goal, Life Is

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Moving, Information, Taught

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• The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.

  Jason Wu

  New York, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• en you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again. You go through this whole transformation process. All that stuff changes you. Riding a horse changes the way you walk and your demeanor.

  James Badge Dale

  Horse, Gun, Cowboy

  Source: collider.com

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Years, Choices

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• Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Pain, Adversity

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