Quotes About Transition

The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.

My prior stint at 'Newsweek' was a very different world. So it's what it's like to be in one of these kooky software startups as a grown up. It's not entirely pleasant! It's like, 'Oh, I don't fit.'

I know coal is dirty, but that's all we got. So as much as I'd love to have clean energy - solar panels everywhere - right now, all we have is coal. The people I love, and the people that I grew up with, that's their livelihood, and I don't want to see them starve.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

I am dying, but the state remains.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.

The day of the press statement has gone.

In my early career as a documentarian, I suppose I was trying to make films which - where it was all about making a big cinematic statement, and I think with 'Marley,' I slightly changed my direction and adopted a more mellow approach.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I'd be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.