Quotes About Transition

I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr

What a beautiful respite a train journey is and a good book, too, and best of all the book on the train, in life and out of it at the same time, before we arrive at Termini and disembark and the book is put down and we must all part and go our separate ways, forever.

Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.

For as the poets and the warriors fell by the wayside the bureaucrats took over.

the phase of daring escapades, of raids and rallies, gave way to the inevitable grimmer phase when the implications of the war began to strike home to everybody.

The Dooryard changes everything!

It's not weak to recognize when it's time to shift directions.

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

What makes people between the ages of eleven and fifteen such mean jerks? I'd rather be ninety-five than thirteen again.

See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.

The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest.

And that's it—he goes his way, and I go mine. Used to, we would've broken down that whole story about my dad until we found the very truth of the truth of it, but now it's just, "So long, I'll see you later.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.

An empire long united, must divide; an empire long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been, and thus it will always be.

That's what the suitcase farmers were doing. Salesmen, druggists, barkeeps, docs, mechanics, teachers—the range of day-jobbers who thought they wanted to be wheat farmers, ripping up a half-section here and there, trying to hit a crop—they were getting out before they got in any deeper.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

most people spend most of their time on defense, in reactive mode, in playing with the cards they got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Instead

when you get on the field, you'll have to start from scratch, turning that paper knowledge into practical knowledge.