Quotes About Transition

You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

I am from the countryside, very rural countryside, and I moved to Tokyo when I was 18 and have been living first-ever since. So yes, I am a city guy, but sometimes I sort of feel there's another me in a parallel world, still in the countryside.

I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.

When you think about 19 years, it has been a heckuva ride. Physically, I want to be able to participate in activities with my kids, so it has taken a toll. It is time to move on and think about maybe coaching or doing some broadcasting.

A life can change in a single moment, and from there you simply move forward.

every life had at its center a beginning that was not birth, a moment when the catch on the lock in one's life opens, and out it comes, starting forward.

matter how well you take care of the dying, no matter if you sit beside them every minute, every day—in the end they must go, and you stay.

No matter how well you take care of the dying, no matter if you sit beside them every minute, every day—in the end they must go, and you stay. And you wave them off. You lie.

Metaphor, Evie thought as she stepped off the curb as the light changed, was for the young. Or, at any rate, for the younger than she.

And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child.

Every day something will happen, something new will come. And then, and then. She remembered this urgent push toward the next thing and the next.

Ogden had understood that every life had at its center a beginning that was not birth, a moment when the catch on the lock in one's life opens, and out it comes, starting forward.

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

Something in transit is in love.

All living seems to be changed — It's as though the sky will never be clear again —

I said, it's strange, each time I see you again. You look different. Altered. You're not like I remember. I have to get used to you.

The firsts go away–first love, first baby, first kiss. You have to create new ones.

That's me. Exist in the swing. Never still, never one thing or the other, always moving from one extreme to the furthest reaches of the other.

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.