Quotes About Transition

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent.

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Tuchel saved me. I was sick of football. I had sacrificed my whole youth for football and then, bang, overnight, it was all over. I didn't want anything to do with football. But when he asked me to become opposition scout it was a win-win situation for everyone.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

When a coach trusts you enough to take you from the youth team and put you into the first team, one of the best teams in the world, it's not easy.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.