Quotes About Transition

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.

Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.