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Quotes About Transition

For many people a job is more than an income — it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.
~ Paul Clitheroe
miracles. My generation grew up through such a period, between
~ Paul Collier
Because when you stopped being a teenager, you started feeling less sure of yourself, and not everything seemed like it was life and death.
~ Unknown
Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day.
~ Unknown
You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.
~ Unknown
Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.
~ Paul David Tripp
Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.
~ Paul David Tripp
Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.
~ Unknown
To you this is a great mystery, but for me death holds no mystery: just three corpses, the ka of which are already travelling into the Far West. I am simply here to ease their way, like a midwife at birth
~ Unknown
moved to Richmond in Yorkshire and from
~ Unknown
It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.
~ Paul Dourish
The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes
~ Unknown
For me death is just moving from one school into another. But there's going to be a difference, because in that new school I shall have wings so I wont need to walk up and down the stairs!
~ Unknown
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
~ Paul Feig
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
~ Paul Getty
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
~ Paul Getty
It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.
~ Paul Graham
Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage : the pain is a memory as soon as you feel it.
~ Paul Graham
The certainty's is gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.
~ Unknown
The certainty's gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.
~ Unknown
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
~ Paul Hawken
A groundbreaking 2016 study from the University of Oxford modeled the climate, health, and economic benefits of a worldwide transition to plant-based diets between now and 2050. Business-as-usual emissions could be reduced by as much as 70 percent through adopting a vegan diet and 63 percent for a vegetarian diet (which includes cheese, milk, and eggs). The model also calculates a reduction in global mortality of 6 to 10 percent.
~ Paul Hawken
Change is hard. That's why propelling away from discomfort is easier than moving toward a fantasy goal.
~ Unknown
Leading up to (divorce), the parties have to ry on different ways of being in the world. This means being single, sexually active, emotionally vulnerable with another human being.
~ Unknown