Quotes About Transition

As investments and as an energy source, fossil fuels have nowhere to go but down.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.

At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere.

When I got cut from the National Football League, I had nowhere to go. I moved in with my parents until I got on my feet again.

Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next.

While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

I had graduated high school early, and my thought was to become a hospice nurse.

Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.

I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that.

I grew up in L.A., I moved to Oakland when I was 14.

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

The challenge that we faced with the arrival of the Obama administration is, they didn't really have time to build trust before they had to make big, difficult decisions.

When I left Tottenham for China i knew I would be further away but my main objective was to play because I wasn't playing and I decided to move on.

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

I was raised in, and presumably to, the cutlery business. I really didn't think that that's what I wanted to do for a career. But I felt a certain obligation to give it a try.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.