Quotes About Reorientation

For a depressed person, there's something reorienting about a crisis. It reminds you there's a world outside your head. Instead of fretting over the future or stewing over the past, you have something new to put in the brain.

he executed a 360-degree turn that made him no friends,

When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.

By recurrently changing the horizon, things can be perceived from another angle and the perspectives of life can be reoriented in a captivating way. If not, the squeaking wheel of our mind will suffer from lack of oil and our vision of the world gets rusted.

There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.

How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?

Reorientation means an emphasis on the dignity of man, not on the sanctity of property. It means the creation of a society where human misery and poverty are repugnant to that society, not an indication of laziness or lack of initiative. The creation of new values means the establishment of a society based on free people, not free enterprise.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

The disorientation and reorientation which comes with the initiation into any mystery is the most wonderful experience which is possible to have.

For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented by God.

two things had to happen to him: first, he had to find out what was important to him, and what it was like to lose it. And second, he had to come to the realization that he needed to restructure his priorities: God first, then family.

Lament is always voiced in the hope that redemption is possible. Psalms and songs of disorientation are always rooted in a failed orientation and long for the time when we will be able to sing new songs of reorientation. Lament keeps us alive with hope when the temptation is to surrender to a defeated numbness.[273]

Discipleship, therefore, must necessarily be an uncomfortable process of reorientation and of abandonment of the self-centered values of human society in favor of the divine economy, in which "Many who are first will be last, and the last first" (10:31).

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [...] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.

turn around, though

So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to create a sound amount of tension through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

I was reorienting my focus and soon came to realize that I was really experiencing yet another start to my understanding of China.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I could see the palm of Freddy's hand tap the butt of his Glock. We do this to reorient our muscles and nerves so we know exactly where our weapons are. Like I noted the pressure of the Baby Glock, in the small of my back. I left it in the holster for the moment. Ryan

The world, for Achilles, reassembled itself around a new centre.