Quotes About Transition

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time?

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

Young widows still bide their time.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.

If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changingcircumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.

It's quite simple. Death isn't what we think it is. It isn't life which ends but time which stops.