Quotes About Disruption

piso-lhe o pé, que na verdade é um coto, fazendo-o derrubar a caneca, espalhando os trocados por toda a calçada. Fiz isso de propósito? O que você acha? Ou fiz isso sem querer?

globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost citizens of the earth and members of the earth's ecosystem more than as citizens of a nation or members of a religion. This identity disruption creates fissures and fractures among existing elites who are still managing parochial national, cultural, ethnic, or religious systems.11

If we find ourselves offended or disturbed by elements of the Ikon services, we might ask ourselves whether the disruption of a disturbing liturgy is necessary at times to arouse people like us from the religious slumbers that so frequently overtake us - like the bizarre characters in a Flannery O'Connor novel or short story, for example - to jolt us into the realization that we routinely tolerate the intolerable in the ways we speak of God.

Since the familiar particles and the objects they compose—stars, planets, people, etc.—amount to less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe, such a disruption would not affect the vast majority of the universe, at least as measured by mass.

The number of disruptors a person can expect to experience in an adult life is around three dozen. That's an average of one every twelve to eighteen months.

My definition: A transition is a vital period of adjustment, creativity, and rebirth that helps one find meaning after a major life disruption. But how do you enter this mysterious state? Does it happen inevitably or do you somehow have to decide? And if so, how do you do that?

Many disruptors, like adopting a child, say, or starting a new job, would not traditionally be defined as negative, yet they're still disruptive. Even the most customarily negative life events, like losing a spouse or being fired, sometimes become catalysts for reinvention. Disruptors are simply deviations from daily life.

THE AVERAGE PERSON GOES THROUGH ONE DISRUPTOR EVERY 12–18 MONTHS

All in, I concluded that the total number of disruptors the average adult faces is between thirty and forty.

forceful burst of change in one's life that leads to a period of upheaval, transition, and renewal.

Why didn't you just ring the doorbell?' Stoat said. 'Why break into the house, and why'd you bust the shower door?' 'To put you in the proper frame of mind,' the man replied. 'Also, I was in the mood for some serious goddamn noise.

Poems that sustain our contemplation, disrupt our complacencies, and leave us changed" -Carl Phillips

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Don't you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

Creating a little bit of chaos is just kind of what I try to do.

Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted - not so much.

I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

I got kicked out of school because I was wilding.

I'm the king troll: I troll everybody.