Quotes About Transition

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

Boxing life is very interesting life; it opened many doors for me around the world, but now I am ready to invest my energy and my experience and my power for the future.

It felt like the world had ended when I was fired, but it actually opened the door for my next opportunity.

I have been successful as an opener, but who knows, maybe I would have been more successful in the middle order.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

That period between finishing the film and opening night is agonising. That's part of why actors go from job to job - so they don't have to live with the anxiety in the interim.

You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

As cliche as it sounds, when one door closes, another one opens. Whenever I've gotten bad news about something, within a week or two there's another opportunity that brings new hope or keeps me motivated.

I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.

As you grow older, there are lesser and lesser roles for you in the movies, while in dance the field opens up as you mature.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

When you lose someone you have two choices. You can stay stuck where you are or you can say, 'I am now on my own, my life has changed and I need to change the way I operate.'

I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.

When I first opened Milk Bar, I was also making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants. I will say that by day three or day four, I realized that operating a bakery was so different from operating a restaurant.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.