Transformation Quotes - Page 36

• My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

  Chris Abani

  People, Everyday, Looks

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

  Shiv Khera

  Mean, Practice, Effort

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• To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.

  Leon Eisenberg

  Mistake, Believe, Men

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• There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

  Will Tuttle

  Spiritual, Compassion, Way

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.380, Lantern Books

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• Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

  Stephen Fry

  Drinking, Frogs, Firsts

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.32, The Overlook Press

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• Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

  Bill Drayton

  Successful, Organization, Working Together

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• If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

  Arne Glimcher

  Ice Cream, Expression, Icons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Moving, Writing, Poetry

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• Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creating, Suffering, Salvation

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

  Thomas Sowell

  News Stories, Self, Views

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• Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Evil, Soul

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• Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

  Desmond Tutu

  Suffering, Spirituality, Human Condition

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.

  Suze Orman

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.

  Brian Tracy

  Cancer, Favorite Words, Profound

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Consciousness, Uncertain, Planets

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

  Paulo Coelho

  Impact, Provoking, Happens

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Dream, Long

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• If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears.
  co-author with Niles Eldridge

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Expectations, Population, Doe

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• Lay me on an anvil, O God.
  Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Prayer, Hammers, Steel

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.

  Max Frisch

  Love, Space, Secret

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Passion, Past, Issues

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• The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.

  Stefan Zweig

  Military, War, Creativity

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• A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Animal, Snakes, Skins

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• Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Stress, Giving, May

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• I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Winning, Reality

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