Quotes About Transformation

When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

I knew nothing about nutrition until 1982. I had a big turnaround that year and never looked back.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

If ailing British companies such as Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, British Airways and Cadbury can be turned around, there is still hope for the BBC.

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world.

We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.