Quotes About Transition

A historical materialist cannot do without the notion of a present which is not a transition, but in which time stands still and has come to a stop. For this notion defines the present in which he himself is writing history.

They say death's a going to bed; I doubt it; but anyhow life's a long undressing. We came in puling and naked, and every stitch must come off before we get out again. We must stand on our feet in all our Rabelaisian nakedness, and watch the world fade.

Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.

I have to burn the bridges to eternity

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.

So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way

Each moment incorporates what came right before and what is coming right after.

Blink your eye and look at it again. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is no more.

Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005. JONATHAN "JONY" IVE. Chief designer

We all—in the end—die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011.

The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions

Jobs seemed to have a premonition that his life would soon be changing. Perhaps the thread of his life would indeed

There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after.

ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005.

I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when i also didn't have to worry about money.' —Steve Jobs

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family

So, in 1748 at age 42—which would turn out to be precisely the midpoint of his life—he retired and turned over the operation of his printing business to his foreman, David Hall.

He use' to play till the cock crowed, but that ole cock don't crow nearly so much no mo'.

America was changing at a snail's pace in a high wind, but until that gastropod mollusk reached its destination I had a .45 in my pocket and eyes on all four corners at once.

as well as in our own thoughts—the way one realization will suddenly overwhelm everything else, to be, in turn, replaced by yet another.

A vast amount of preparation, really, to arrive at the innocuously brief moment of decisive action: the cut—the moment of transition from one shot to the next—something that, appropriately enough, should look almost self-evidently simple and effortless, if it is even noticed at all.