Quotes About Transition

Give up the old so God can perform the new in your life.

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already occurred in our country.

When we were doing 'Five Centimeters Per Second,' at that time, Japan was in an era when it felt nothing would ever change, so I wanted to make a movie that reflected that feeling.

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, 'I know what that is now. I know it's not another dog.'

There was an existential moment - I don't know if I want to call it crisis - when I turned 50 and I felt 'this is interesting; how did this happen?' It affected me in a way I wasn't expecting. It made me pause for reflection.

Unfortunately, relationships always end for a reason. When it happens it is a time for reflection of course, because one has to always learn from those circumstances.

The transitional period is tough. You can find yourself too old to play high school roles but too young to play the leading man. You have to be quite smart about how you present yourself. Your public image reflects your range.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

Cutting my hair, I feel like I'm going to another level. Cutting my hair was a step for me. Anybody that has had hair for so long, when you're used to something, it's like reforming your life.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

I'll say the year 2020 will be known as the year of reforms.

A change of environment is pretty refreshing.

A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing.

I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.