Quotes About Transformation

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.

The world is changing. I'm trying to adjust to it, just like everyone else.

We're trying to do for the national ­security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal ­service.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

I no longer believe in fad diets, crash diets... yes, I did have a jump-start because years ago I did get the liposuction and a tummy tuck, but I have to say that, if there is a poster child for plastic surgery and the jump-off to a new lifestyle, it would be me.

I've had a tummy tuck - we all know that.

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Those who have read the book and followed my tumultuous life understand that in many ways my life parallels 'the Count of Monte Cristo' - the only difference is his friends sent him away and he did nothing.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.

The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.

Turmoil stimulates.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.