Quotes About Transformation

Change requires sacrifice. Cahnge requires acceptance of your sins.

Change requires sacrifice. Change requires acceptance of your sins.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Life could leave the ocean when it learned to grow a skin, a bag in which to take the water with it.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.

She takes grains of truth and builds them into vast deserts.

Truth is a chameleon.

Nevertheless, Paul had learned to make his own decisions. I have created a universe in which the old rules do not apply. A new paradigm. I am sorry, Father.

adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and—let us hope—we remember how to change back. Ambassador Cammar Pilru, Dispatches in Defense of Ix

Resistance to change is a survival characteristic. But in its extreme form, it is poisonous—and suicidal. —Zensunni stricture

Blinking as he pushed himself into the open air like an infant emerging from a womb, Liet stared at the storm-scoured landscape. The desert was reborn: Dunes moved along like a marching herd; familiar landmarks changed; footprints, tents, even small villages erased. The entire basin looked fresh and clean and new.

Traditionally, Guild Navigators masked their appearance, keeping themselves hidden in thick clouds of spice gas. It was generally believed that the process of becoming a Navigator transformed a person into something other than human, something more evolved. The Guild said nothing to confirm or deny the speculations.

Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. But what happens when those people disappear from our lives?

No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess. And everything awful used to be something good.

Nothing like that is going to happen, Candy. After 9/11 and the gas attacks, our people have learned how important it is to take care of each other. It's a new New York.

These days, we can be whatever we want to be. The apocalypse is sort of freeing, don't you think?

So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

Let's see you reconstitute yourself from dogshit!

a piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

Maybe a man can change. It helps when you've been injured, when you've been dislodged from the complacent routines of your life. Sometimes it takes an injury to make you see what you share with others.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.