Quotes About Transition

It all starts with disciplined people. The transition begins not by trying to discipline the wrong people into the right behaviors, but by getting self-disciplined people on the bus in the first place.

nella maggior parte degli ambienti non c'era motivo che un raccoglitore passasse all'agricoltura se non costretto dalla pressione demografica o da qualche forma di coercizione.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

Human tragedy, of its essence, consists in the denigration of what is in the name of what is to come

while they circle the drain. What else?

Life is like the moon— now dark, now full.   —Polish Proverb

for flowers that will bloom in a garden will die on a heath...

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Did you hurt yourself? Sort of. Why'd you do that? I didn't do it on purpose. It's just the cost of doing business. Her Grandmother smiles and she gently touches my face with her free hand. I hope that's a business you're leaving, James. I smile, enjoy the warmth of her hand. We'll see. She nods. Her eyes and her hand understand my words, have seen and felt this type of damage before. There is no judgment and no condescension. Just hope.

chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.

When you come to a new team there's always uncertainty about how they're going to respond.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

Yes, my uncle wanted me to be a cinematographer and he was disappointed when I gave up that dream to become an actress.

I was 13 or 14 when I was brought from Paramakudi to Chennai by my uncle Kamal Haasan, and I lived under the care of my uncle and my grandparents.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.