Quotes About Shifts

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

American history is punctuated by watershed moments, fulcrum points that separate one sense of ourselves (as a nation) from another.

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

When there is an agreement between heaven and earth, everything shifts toward godliness.

In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life. Difficult circumstances often create paradigm shifts, whole new frames of reference by which people see the world and themselves and others in it, and what life is asking of them. Their larger perspective reflects the attitudinal values that lift and inspire us all. T

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

All love shifts and changes.

Worlds end all the time.

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated novels all begin to resemble each other the tacitly accepted view of what a good novel must be (and must be about) shifts imperceptibly.

Other surveys show the same shifts.

Synchronicities, those times when an outer event resonates mysteriously and powerfully with what's happening inside, are more numerous during great shifts and upheavals. If we pay attention, if we approach them as symbolic and revelatory, they will often illuminate a way for us.

Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts – there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.

A lot could happen in a week. Just look at the last one.

Pero la historia ha dado y da muchas vueltas: no es unidireccional.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

Every decade there's a new trend of films. Something else is more liked by the audience, something else is more popular.

Trends don't mean very much.

Transformation is the result of big shifts in perceptions and responses. The process can be uncomfortable, since the mind is reluctant to notice itself, to take responsibility for its stories, and to change. When the mind is in acute resistance, the emotional body pays a price.

The mind shifts with small abuses of truth," he said. "A new idea is sometimes enough—a change of perception, or one brief look into itself." His voice was soft, but carried force. "The biggest shifts come from experiencing the pure sensations of life, without commentary. Stop thinking, and there's only sensation. Stop trying, and you rise in love.

The average person goes through three to five of these massive reorientations in their adult lives; their average duration, my data show, is five years. When you do the math, that means nearly half our lives are spent responding to one of these episodes.