Quotes About Transition

Leigh left college to be married, and then it was goodbye Drew and hello Taos. I went to her wedding with hardly a qualm. Nice fellow. Drove a Honda Civic. No problems there.

For months - sometimes even years, as I tried to explain to you - time hardly seems to exist. Then everything comes in a gasp.

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one's Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

They led to the fall of leaders who embraced American ideals, and the imposition of others who detested everything Americans hold dear.

Collectivize one sixth of the earth? How? With what levers? Even the ultraleftist Trotsky, in a speech a few years back, had called a "transition to collective forms" of agriculture a matter of "one or two generations.

Once we can see the major shifts from liking to disliking, from opened to close, we will be able to acknowledge them before they gain momentum.

Preparing for death is one of the most profoundly healing acts of a lifetime. For

By 1831, he had determined to leave the grocery business and to begin manufacturing chocolate and cocoa. He had convinced himself that "drinking chocolate" could become an alternative to the gin and whiskey that were ravaging so many lives.

Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

Things were going to get worse before they got better, and everyone knew it.

Expand Perspective Sometimes we are knocked out of our left brain environment and thought patterns and into the right brain by an unplanned experience. The death of a loved one, a severe illness, a financial setback, or extreme adversity can cause us to stand back, look at our lives, and ask ourselves some hard questions: "What's really important? Why am I doing what I'm doing?

And what happens when the source of borrowed strength—be it superior size or physical strength, position, authority, credentials, status symbols, appearance, or past achievements—changes or is no longer there?

The world has changed dramatically since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was first published. Life is more complex, more stressful, more demanding. We have transitioned from the Industrial

Y qué ocurre cuando cambia o desaparece la fuente de la fuerza, ya consista en el mayor tamaño o la mayor fuerza física, en la posición superior, en la autoridad, en credenciales, en símbolos de estatus, en el aspecto personal o en logros pasados?

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role

the sunlight closed behind them like an unregainable door.

The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Transition is Rare

El hermoso viaje de hoy sólo puede comenzar cuando aprendemos a dejar ir el ayer. STEVE MARABOLI, INVESTIGADOR

Por supuesto que nos haremos daño, pero esta es la condición misma de la existencia. Para convertirse en primavera, primero hay que ser invierno. Para llegar a ser presencia, primero hay que ser ausencia. ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY, AUTOR

Lo que la oruga llama el fin del mundo, el maestro lo llama una mariposa. RICHARD BACH, ESCRITOR

If you were to pause for a moment and look at your life from a slightly different perspective, you would see you've always been changing.

Aren't you the president? Don't they all work for you?" "I'm a president with not much more than a year left in office. They don't really care what I think or do anymore. They're more interested in the next person who'll be sitting in this chair.

He who does not move forward, recedes.