Quotes About Transition

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.

Our only security is our ability to change.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

Was it the day you realized your parents aren't perfect? When you got your first long trousers? Going to school? Saying hello? Saying goodbye? Your heart opens? It breaks? It heals? It breaks again? Which is it?

In the martial art of Karate, for instance, the symbol of pride for a black belt is to wear it long enough such that the die fades to white as to symbolize returning to the beginner state.

There was an abyss between the original work done by Engelbart's group in the sixties and the motley crew of hobbyists that would create the personal-computer industry beginning in 1975.

I can't describe the feeling when I go down – it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.

Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

Then the day came when we stopped playing. We'd gone a couple of months without our usual games, but a few days into the school holidays I got my dolls out and tried to start up again. And it had all gone. The magic didn't work any more. I could barely even remember how we'd done it, but I tried to recapture the mood, the storylines, the way the dolls had moved and thought and spoken. But now it was like reading a meaningless book.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

It is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of transition

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

What I didn't realize was this: It's never possible to be prepared when the future takes over from the past.

I suppose that's how you get old. You find yourself not doing a whole lot of things you once did without thought.

A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.

We are surrounded with people who think that what we have been doing for that one-fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely. They are considered normal, but they are stark, raving mad.