Quotes About Transformation

To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." —Winston Churchill Changes

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

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One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

la mayor necesidad en cada región visitada son " líderes". Hoy más que nunca en las naciones del mundo necesitamos que emerjan verdaderos líderes que transformen para bien nuestra Sociedad.

In some respects the Hamburg firestorm can be considered a microcosm of what happened to Europe in the war. As with the rest of Europe, the bombing had transformed the city into a landscape of ruins – and yet there were still parts of it that lay serenely, miraculously, untouched.

Reading is the strangest art. Your eye takes a shape, turns it into music, then story, then spirit, so a curl of ink laid long ago by a sliver of reed can become, a thousand years later, your own breath.

Il poter cambiare la nostra natura, non è esattamente questo ciò che ci distingue dagli animali?

National Service] changes guys. I saw my older cousins, older friends who'd been through it. They'd come out different men, basically. Left right left right. That drill. It's brainwashing. You can do it in your goddamn sleep. Sometimes these guys did. Their whole mind changed, and their sense of what they were, what level they inhabited. […] A lot of steam seemed to have been taken out of them.

So I was right, wasn't I? It's still you, even in wolf form.' He grunted. No sudden uncontrollable urges to go kill something?' He rolled his eyes. Hey, you're the one who was worried.' I paused. 'And I don't smell like dinner, right?' I got a real look for that one. Just covering all the bases.

All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.

Death, Randa thought, elevated people.

This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.

Anything becomes less boring with googly eyes on it.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Whether or not [a] story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. A girl or a monster or both. Not everyone in a story gets a happy ending. Not everyone who reads a story feels the same way about how it ends. And if you go back to the beginning and read it again, you may discover it isn't the same story you thought you'd read. Stories shift their shape.

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby ' I'm rocking a bikini!

The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions.

History is coming for the empire.

That West was long gone, the West of the imagination.