Transformed Quotes - Page 27

• If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.

  Clayton Christensen

  Names, Average, Guy

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Way, New Music

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.

  Anthony Caro

  Art, Taken, Next

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Hate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• We had just paid the check when Dimitri's cell phone rang. "Hello?" he answered. And like that, his face transformed. That fierceness I so associated with him softened, and he practically glowed. "No, no. It's always a good time for you to call, Roza." Whatever the response on the other end was, it made him smile.

  Richelle Mead

  Phones, Cells, Roza

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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• Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Destruction

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• We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

  Judith Butler

  Return, World, Loses

  "Judith Butler: 'What value do the humanities have?'". McGill University speech, speakola.squarespace.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Falling In Love, Unexpected, Moments

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• Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

  Matt Chandler

  Heart, Grace, Darkness

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• Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

  Dan Brown

  Stars, Sky, Darkness

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.784, Knopf

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• He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?" Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into a small statue, which helped avoid uncomfortable questions when people came by. Only she could transform him though. "Yeah. He keeps trying to eat my paints. And I don't want him to watch me kiss you goodbye.

  Richelle Mead

  Goodbye, Kissing, People

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.

  Linda Gray

  Beautiful, Thinking, High Heels

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• Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.

  Francis William Aston

  Dream, Stars, Mean

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

  Robert Quine

  Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

  Arthur Koestler

  Society, Groups, Killers

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Art, Substance, Growing

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• Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Change, Earth, Celebrate

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• The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Men, Tools

  "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". "Verde Olivo" Magazine, www.marxists.org. October 8, 1960.

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• I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Zero, Painting, Creation

  "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting". Book by Kazimir Malevich, November 1916.

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• We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.

  Miguel Serrano

  Religious, Believe, Hero

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• Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

  Jack Zipes

  Narrative, Fabric, Ancient

  Jack Zipes (2013). “Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale”, p.4, University Press of Kentucky

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• In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

  Luis Barragan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Garden

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• There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Forever

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• Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Glowing, Vision

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• In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Moral, Abstract

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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