Quotes About Shifts

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends.

His sunrise mood evaporated with the dew, giving way to restlessness, disquiet. All his life, Lucius's moods had been prey to shifts of light, and now a leaden melancholy dragged at his spirits.

It made no sense naturewise—owls and songbirds work different shifts, and even if they didn't they would still never be friends.

Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor.

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift

Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.

I tried to figure out whether it was day or night: if it was day I had a shot at going home, but in the hospital there was no day or night. Only shifts. Only waiting.

The third method of self-distancing, as Julius Caesar and Elmo teach us, is through language. Kross, Ayduk, and others have carried out some fascinating research concluding that "subtle shifts in the language people use to refer to themselves during introspection can influence their capacity to regulate how they think, feel, and behave under stress.

If the sponge (mirror) neurons are our receiver, then our subcortical areas are the amplifier. These subcortical shifts are what changes in us when we attune to someone else.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

Strength comes from struggle, when you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from I can't do this to I MUST DO THIS.

No, but as a vampire, I'm able to detect subtle shifts in emotional energy.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms and dies, steps out for a cigarette and blows tendrils of information and emotion back under the door.

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.

The fear all men have that there's something inside us that shifts, and turns. A living thing, once dormant, stirring now, and filled with rage.

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas»

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas» —dijo Fidel enfatizando

Any increase in the relative size of government in the economy, therefore, shifts the societal consumption-investment ratio in favor of consumption, and prolongs the depression.

I am a woman committed to a politics of transliteration, the methodology of a mind stunned at the suddenly possible shifts of meaning - for which like amnesiacs in a ward on fire, we must find words or burn.

As I learn about pest control, it reminds me of international relations - fraught with unintended consequences and shifting alliances and deals, a place where the enemy of my enemy is my friend and has always been my friend and will always be my friend, until the next shift in the balance of power when it's suddenly the other way around. The whole thing is a delicate dance (...)