Quotes About Transition

In terms of our energy mix, therefore, and despite tablet computers, synthetic biology and Twitter, we are really only mid-way through the Industrial Revolution.

Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

On September 12, 2013, the Atlantic, a progressive media outlet, reported that there were at least twenty-four journalists who transitioned from media jobs to working in the Obama administration.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage." ~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

trying to establish the boundary between an irresistible impulse and an impulse not resisted was like trying to determine when twilight ended and dusk began.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

For soon the leaves, Having gone black, would fall, and the annulling snow Would pillow the walk, and we, with shovels in hand, would meet, Bow, and scrape the sidewalk clean. What else would there be This late in the day for us but desire to make amends And start again, the sun's compassion as it disappears.

I walk into what light there is — Mark Strand, from "Another Place," Collected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 2014)

And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you find yourself where you will be at the end, tell yourself in that final flowing of cold through your limbs that you love what you are. — Mark Strand, from "Lines for Winter," Selected Poems . (Knopf September 26, 1990)

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

The best thing is to grieve for the people you loved and lost, and then welcome and love the new people life puts in front of you.

Nothing will ever be the same.

In early February 2006, I was forty-seven and at the lowest point of my life.

The truck sped up, and Adeline's cousin spiraled out of her life like a leaf caught in a gale.

The best thing is to grieve for the people you loved and lost, and then welcome and love the new people life puts in front of you." Pino

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.