Quotes About Transition

What was bright and exciting becomes weary, flat, and unprofitable.

He was now convinced that Hitler had brought the movement to a dead end. The more radical followers were going over to the Communists.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.

Death isn't what it used to be

Guv," she said to Baron. "What do you know about how to …" She opened and clenched her hands. "How to make big shit go into something little?

What d'you know about making big shit little?

Twilight, even remembered twilight, is better than no light at all. It would be equally absurd to say that there is nothing we can learn from the revolution. To deny that the sumerki of October can be ours, and that it need not always be followed by night.

He befouled where he was with where he had been.

staggering out of Language, into language

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

May you always live in interesting times.

You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.

There will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring.. Agian..

Yes, there will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring again...

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Death is tolerable only when it leads again to life.

Where I come from in the Eastern Region, life is still -- well, things are changing very fast but if one is interested, one can still see signs of what life used to look like.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

one way to motivate a switch is to shrink the change, which makes people feel "big" relative to the challenge.

make a switch, you need to script the critical moves

Rather than focusing solely on what's new and different about the change to come, make an effort to remind people what's already been conquered.

If you're struggling to make a transition, create a defining moment that draws a dividing line between Old You and New You.