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Quotes About Transition

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.
~ Piet Mondrian
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
~ Peter Senge
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
~ George Edward Woodberry
The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.
~ Gia Coppola
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
~ Caitlin Flanagan
There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
~ Carre Otis
It's incredible to be going from the Shondaland universe to 'Big Bang' creator Chuck Lorre.
~ Zoe Perry
Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
~ Alice Hoffman
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.
~ Luke Nosek
I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.
~ Daniel Wu
I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.
~ Nicole Richie
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
~ Darrell Royal
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
~ George Lucas
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
~ Omari Hardwick
I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
~ Charlie Kaufman
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.
~ Darrell Hammond
People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.
~ Wilbur Smith
I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.
~ Jake Tapper
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
~ Jim Fowler
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.
~ Ken Wilber
When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
~ Lou Holtz
When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.
~ Lee Mack