Quotes About Transition

There are many stages of grief.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

When you join the NFL, you start from scratch. As long as I've been playing - which has been since I was eight years old - the game becomes harder at every level. Little league, high school, college - they're different stages you have to go through, and professional sport is completely different again.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I was trying to catch up with myself. Figuring out how to take up space was an interesting journey.

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

I've embraced life at all stages.

There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation.

There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

When I started the label, I stopped racing. Even though I have a better chance of getting hurt walking outside and falling down the stairs, if I had gotten injured on the racetrack, people would be going, 'What is this guy doing?' So I had to grow up a little bit.

I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

Once I moved to Chelsea I certainly felt the stakes had been raised and the training went to another level with a higher quality of players.

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I quit law school in 1990 and started doing stand up in Boston.

In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and 'end' something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way.