Quotes About Transition

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Life itself means to separate and to be reunited, to change form and condition, to die and to be reborn. It is to act and to cease, to wait and to rest, and then to begin acting again, but in a different way. And there are always new thresholds to cross: the threshold of summer and winter, of season or a year, of a month of a night; the thresholds of birth, adolescence, maturity and old age; the threshold of death and that of the afterlife -- for those who believe in it.

the change is at hand-the old order is cracking. It has been said that 'the cure for democracy is more democracy

Believe me, most people resist change, even when it promises to be for the better. But change will come, and if you acknowledge this simple but indisputable fact of life, and understand that you must adjust to all change, then you will have a head start.

Imagine an external intelligence studying the methods by which earth-born creatures of various types adjust themselves to future circumstances. The most primitive method is, I suppose, no more than simple nervous reaction. The most developed method involves reasoned expectation. And between these two extremes our supposed observer would see a long series of intermediate forms melting into one another by insensible gradation.

The idea of moving to instruction later in life is a theme one finds in the great wisdom literatures from East to West.

But you must be prepared to walk away from these achievements and rewards before you feel ready.

In his book, he interviews hundreds of people about their transitions, finding that a significant change in life occurs, on average, every eighteen months, and that lifequakes like his—or those that involve voluntary or involuntary career changes—happen very regularly. Most are involuntary—and thus unwelcome at the time—but nothing is more predictable than change.

As one management scholar puts it, "Employees who do not successfully traverse this period experience ongoing identity instability; they are cognitively and emotionally consumed by the loss, stagnating in their inability to let go of the old self and/or to embrace the new and changed work self."[7

I walked away from the people and job I knew and loved and the excitement of being near the action of politics and policymaking. Why? Because I did the research in this book and committed to myself to following the implications.

If you're experiencing decline in fluid intelligence—and if you are my age, you are—it doesn't mean you are washed up. It means it is time to jump off the fluid intelligence curve and onto the crystallized intelligence curve.

See yourself relaxing in your humility, being yourself—and thus ready to jump to the second curve. But you still do have to jump.

It means a big life transition, and as we all know, transitions can be hard. So that's where we need to turn our attention next: making the jump.

There is a falling tide to life, the transition from fluid to crystallized intelligence.

Indeed, your biggest life transition doesn't have to be a crisis or a period of loss, but rather can be an exciting adventure full of opportunities you never knew existed.

Psychologists have a special word for uncomfortable life transitions: "liminality."[3] It means the time between work roles, organizations, career paths, and relationship stages.

Psychologists have a special word for uncomfortable life transitions: "liminality."[3] It means the time between work roles, organizations, career paths, and relationship stages. The author Bruce Feiler wrote a popular book in 2020 on liminality called Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age.[4]

Luther successfully jumped onto his second curve after he stopped adding and started chipping away. As he succinctly puts it, "I am loving my life.

Thus, psychologist Carl Jung noted, "what is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age.

In your next phase of life . . . What activities will you keep? What activities will you evolve and do differently? What activities will you let go of? What new activities will you learn? And to start . . . What will you commit to doing in the next week to evolve into the new you? What will you commit to doing in the next month? What will you commit to doing within six months? In a year, what will be the first fruits to appear as a result of your commitments?

My comfort in exploring and expressing new ideas appears inversely proportional to my sense of stability. Among other things, this book is the fruit of my transition.

Many mornings upon waking, my first thoughts are about my old work and friendships in Washington. I rub the sleep from my eyes, get up, and cast my line into the falling tide of the new day.