Transition Quotes - Page 24

• The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Sculpture, Senses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83

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• Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

  Andrew Evans

  Retirement, Class, Republic

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• The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

  George Soros

  Dark, Dawn, Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  Hans Kung

  Reality, Space, Infinity

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

  Anne Enright

  Dream, Book, Finding Yourself

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.

  John Dykstra

  Character, Opportunity, Creating

  "VFX Legend John Dykstra On ‘X-Men: First Class’, ‘Spider-Man’ & ‘Caddyshack’ Gophers". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mean, Population, Demographics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Hunting, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another. Talk about Paleolithic and Neolithic.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Russia, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Leader

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• Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

  Isabel Allende

  Dying, Easy, Hard

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• The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Majority, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.

  Andrew Gurland

  Growing Up, Husband, Married

  "Married showrunner Andrew Gurland is the guy laughing at the funeral". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 10, 2015.

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• My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

  Debbie Macomber

  Struggle, Writing, Long

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

  Oliver Kahn

  Sports, Running, Upheaval

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

  Darius McCrary

  Real, Character, Play

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Successful, Climate

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• Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Energy, Climate, Doe

  "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Tired, Vices

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Cds, Differences

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Practice, Support, Creative

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

  Laozi

  Joy, Looks, Bliss

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• I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  People, Worry, Losing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• My main focus, whenever I put on a new uniform, was just to provide energy. ... There was one thing I knew I could never mess up, and that was going hard. That's what I really kind of relied on to get me through the transition period between two teams.

  Drew Gooden

  Team, Two, Focus

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the actor who's very focused on the narrative, where my character is in the story, and how I can benefit the story. I've always had a technical aspect of what the lens is, how the camera is going to move, how I can feed the information the director applies within that move. If you're that type of actor, narrative-based, technically proficient, the next step is actually not that far.

  Russell Crowe

  Moving, Character, Shoes

  "Russell Crowe, The Water Diviner Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April, 2015.

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