Quotes About Transition

I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.

Shifting gears from my journalistic work to bakery life allows me to step away and see things from a different perspective. Some of my most creative ideas or biggest aha moments have come when I was immersed in one job while thinking about the other from a slightly removed point of view.

I think for me the final push to move to Paris was the fact I wanted an adventure and I was slightly bored of my life in London.

In '84 there was Raheem, Slim Jukebox, and Sir Rap-A-Lot. Those were the first three members of the Geto Boys with DJ Ready Red. By '85 it was Prince Johnny C, Slim Jukebox, Bushwick Bill, and DJ Ready Red. By '89 it was Scarface, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, and Ready Red.

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

I might feel a little bit empty, and it might get to me for a short time, but I'm hoping to keep my association with football and with broadcasting - I'm not retiring from everything; I'm retiring from the BBC. I'm certainly not going pipe and slippers.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

The America I love is slipping away.

Once I got to college, I didn't know defensive rotations; my footwork was sloppy. I used to travel every other play.

I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

I was someone who used to bat up the order. Due to different reasons, I started batting at No. 7, and that became a permanent slot for me.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

Seabeck is slow to change.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

I am taking 2020 a bit slow... sometimes you need to restructure and re-strategise as an artiste for things to work well.

In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.

You get old, you slow down.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.