Transforming Quotes - Page 3

• Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Book, Fighting, Voice

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• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  Naveen Jain

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Pride, Decision

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• Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.106, Routledge

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• Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Powerful, Thinking

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• Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

  John Engler

  Building Things, Raw Materials, Products

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• Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Doctrine

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Two, People

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• To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

  James Buchan

  Unique, Men, Names

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• That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

  Rob Sheffield

  Blood, Lust, Secret

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• Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Hands, Creating

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• And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

  Charlize Theron

  Wigs, Film, Celebrate

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• Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Life, People, Training

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• The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault

  Brandon Mull

  Baby, Rooms, Dove

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• Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Gratitude, Greed, Contentment

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• Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Seductive, Political

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• Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber.

  Nicholson Baker

  Unique, Leaving, Tears

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• I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

  India.Arie

  Power, Opportunity, People

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• I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

  John Gardner

  Goes On, Whispering, World

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.49, Vintage

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• ...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Space, Office

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.81, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I was an atheist and I came to experience a relationship with God which had a radically transforming effect on my life, on my relationships, on every aspect of my life, for the better. So, obviously I hope other people will experience that.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Atheist, People, Aspect

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Men, People

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Past, Giving

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• The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Squares, Meals, Able

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