Quotes About Transition

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

To be able to change from being essentially a bad guy into a really hot babyface overnight is very hard to do.

As a running back, when you get the ball year after year - and I would say three years on the short end and seven on the long side - you reach a point where it seems like overnight, your body changes and you can't do what you used to do anymore. We see those drastic declines more at running back than any other position.

You can't expect a coach to come in and just change everything overnight.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

My life has completely changed. Overnight it changed with 'Every Little Thing.'

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.

There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.

Overseas and going straight to the NBA wasn't even an option.

They really allow you to play overseas. They let you play through everything - holding, grabbing, illegal screens, tough hand-checking and tough defense. Playing overseas for five years, that's all I knew. When I got to the Rockets, I brought that same mindset.

From a nobody, I seem to have become a celebrity of sorts overnight. I am dumbstruck and overwhelmed.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

that she might slip off into that space where she stared, go for good to whatever she kept watching.