Quotes About Transition

When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

I've done the glamour doll, song-and-dance routine, the works. I've reached a stage in my career where I'm ready to experiment.

We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.

I reached a point in my private life where I started having these thoughts about changing. But I was paralyzed by fear, that I would lose everything that I had worked very hard to achieve up until that point.

I've reached an age where I don't want to be on the road all the time.

I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second.

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

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

Once '0 to 100' happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction - really the first big record that I was a part of. It was a big, life-changing thing for me.

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.