Quotes About Transition

Similarly, if you lose someone, don't replace him immediately. See how long you can get by without that person and that position.

CEOs and senior leaders who are thinking about leaving a company have effectively already left, and the biggest favor they can do the organization is to get out of the way and allow the business to change and grow.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

The pause we're experiencing can highlight a basic truth: we may or may not walk this way again, and even if we do, we will never be precisely the same people who experienced that journey in the first place. Travel is only ever about a moment in time and space, but it's also about how we choose to hold that moment in our memories. It is always both present and past.

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

It's unbearable that the people we know should suddenly be relegated to the past

Quando uma pessoa deseja uma coisa durante muito tempo, é muito difícil deixar de o desejar, isto é, admitir ou dar-se conta de que já não a deseja ou que prefere outra coisa. A espera alimenta e potencia esse desejo, a espera é acumulativa relativamente ao que se espera, solidificando-o e torna-o pétreo.

Nadie ve con nitidez lo que ya no está delante, aunque acabe de suceder o aún floten en la habitación el aroma o el descontento de quien apenas se ha despedido.

Nada dura, ni se repite, ni se detiene, ni insiste.

Ha az ember sokáig vágyik valamire, egy idÅ' után már nagyon nehéz nem vágyni rá; úgy értem, ráébredni és elfogadni, hogy már nem arra vágyunk, hanem másvalamit szeretnénk.

La noche pertenece al día anterior en nuestro sentimiento

el mundo entero se mueve a menudo sólo para dejar de ocupar su lugar y usurpar el de otro, sólo por eso, para olvidarse de sí mismo y enterrar al que ha sido, todos nos cansamos indeciblemente de ser el que somos y el que hemos sido.

Quién sabe quién nos sustituye y a quién sustituimos nosotros, sólo sabemos que sustituimos y se nos sustituye siempre, en todas las ocasiones y en todas las circunstancias y en cualquier desempeño y en todas partes, en el amor, la amistad, en el empleo y en la influencia, en la dominación, y en el odio que también mañana se cansará de nosotros, o pasado mañana o al otro o al otro.

el tiempo verbal con que piensa es sin duda ese, uno no se dice 'quién es' sino inexplicablemente ya 'quién era'

Porque las palabras del año pasado pertenecen al lenguaje del año pasado y las palabras del año que viene esperan una voz distinta'.

nuestras necesidades y deseos varían a medida que perdemos o nos abandonan o nos desposeen

Don't Exaggerate with "Always" and "Never": Give Them Room to Change

La vida no puede ser una preparación para la muerte porque entonces todo sería preparación para una vida que nunca aparece.

Sixth graders had stopped asking Now what? and had started asking So what? She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

and down they forgot as up they grew.

the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years,to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who's trying not to laugh at somebody who's trying not to cry

gone are those hugest hours of dark and cold when blood and flesh to inexistence bow (all that was doubtful's certain,timid's bold; old's youthful and reluctant's eager now)

Days of Innocence 1 who are you,little i (five or six years old) peering from some high window;at the gold of november sunset (and feeling:that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way)