Quotes About Transition

When you step foot into your first professional tournament, everything you've done in your amateur career really doesn't matter any more.

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

I've played for 15 years and played in five major tournaments. I know what it gives me in terms of the joy, in terms of the love for the game. But I'm done with it.

I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a few tournaments and then have a family.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

There's no miracle formula but we have to move towards a lower carbon economy. We don't have any other choice.