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Quotes About Transformation

I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
~ Autumn Reeser
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
~ Madonna Ciccone
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
~ Hans Hofmann
I believe that companies are, above all, agents of transformation.
~ Guilherme Leal
Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.
~ Bernice King
You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
~ Dan Gilbert
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.
~ Antonin Scalia
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
~ Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.
~ Tony Evans
In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.
~ Anand Mahindra
Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
~ Wendy Kopp
Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.
~ Safra A. Catz
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
~ Asa Gray
As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
~ Viktor Orban
China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
~ Paul Hawken
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
~ Ernst Mayr
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
~ Atul Gawande
Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.
~ Simon Mainwaring
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
~ John Desmond Bernal
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
~ Johann Most
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.