Quotes About Transformation

Change is hard for most people. Not me. I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new.

I suddenly see us from above. I do that all the time now. I think it's because I'm losing my humanity and it's my way of marking my descent into hell.

one must break with one's past to embrace one's future.

You watch her walking around, smiling, moving different than she moved before she went to him, and you know something happened up there that made her feel more alive than she ever felt before, that she got to be the way you hope you'll get to be with a man, even if it's just once in your life. A man has to see women a certain way for it to be that way.

I make a new discovery that totally blows. Dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks. One second I'm gone. I don't even exist. The next second, I'm on fire with pain.

You have become a monster. There is nothing left of the man I love.

I leaned closer, staring in through the glass. He'd refurnished the bookstore. How long had I been gone? There was my magazine rack, my cashier's counter, a new old-fashioned cash register, a small flat-screen TV/DVD player that was actually from this decade, and a sound dock for my iPod. There was a new sleek black iPod Nano in the dock. He'd done more than refurnish the place. He might as well have put a mat out that said WELCOME HOME, MAC.

I want to keep her from ever changing into something so terrible as I've become.

I want to keep her from ever changing into something so terrible as I've become. I want to shelter her from the hard truth that life takes from you, whittles away at your hope and scrapes the flesh from your bone and leaves you so changed you can't even recognize yourself in the mirror anymore.

I remember the look on Barrons's face when I stumbled, horrified, down the stairs, great black wings trailing the risers, and he must have felt what happened, because he was rushing up the stairs to find me.

She's going to burn herself to ash if she doesn't find someone or something that takes her all the way down to ground zero and recharges her. She needs to crash as hard as she lives or she'll die young.

Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level; admit you're swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd hurtling down the drain toward you, you can't dodge it. I've come to get out of the toilet bowl and become the commode that flushes the shit.

Heavy stuff, I know. I think I've finally graduated from the don't-knows that don't know to the don't-knows that do. Barrons had security cameras in the garage. He'd just given me a tape of myself breaking into it.

Decide, Ms. Lane," Barrons said, behind me. "Choose," V'lane agreed. "Go to hell, both of you! New world. New rules. New me. Don't call me. I'll call you.

I take a being and make its molecules rest. How is that not creation? It was one thing and is another. Once it ate, now it is eaten. Did I not create sustenance for another with its new state? Can there be any act of creation that does not first destroy? Villages fall. Cities rise. Humans die. Life springs from the soil wherein they lie. Is not any act of destruction, should time enough pass, an act of creation?" Conversations with Sinsar Dubh, Shadowfever - K.M.Moning

In terms of overall transformation plan ownership, we recommend a sole accountable party.

It bears repeating: in our experience, the plan review meetings are a key success factor in value stream transformation.

Executing and sustaining change requires a different set of organizational behaviors than those required for planning.

In the spirit of respect for people, and as a means to facilitate plan execution, workers who are part of the process or those who will be affected by the improvements must also be aware of the mapping activity and the plan for transformation.

a value stream is a series of processes that connect together and transform a customer request into a good or service that's delivered to the customer, which completes the request-to-delivery cycle

Rather than viewing value stream mapping as just a toll to reduce operational waste, the broader use of value stream mapping as a methodology to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and assure that customers are receiving high levels of value is where value stream mapping earns its brightest stripes.

Transformation requires fundamental changes in an organization's DNA; done well, value stream mapping can be instrumental in facilitating the necessary shifts in mindsets and behaviors.

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Raffy has this magical, abracadabrical ability to transform all his "ifs" into "whens".