Quotes About Transition

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

The first instrument is not the final instrument.

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental music.

After I finished university and started going to auditions again, and I also did a bunch of other jobs. I worked in the insurance industry, the digital media industry; I worked in a financial services company for three years.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.

We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.

By the time I hit 33 I intend on retiring. I'm done after that.

I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place.

I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.

So it was really cool just reinventing myself, changing my look, my image, my intensity, my ring-work style, everything that went along with it.

I have been involved with theatre since I was 13. I never seriously thought I would get into movies though I had every intention of continuing with theatre.

I don't think I am moving into an analyst role. And I'm very intentional about that. I'm at the point where I'm really looking forward to being a host.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

I'm definitely not the same actor that I was when I was 9 years old, and that's because my intentions, my goals, aspirations, or whatever were different.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

I was an artist before I got into interiors.