Quotes About Transformation

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

The Reality had swept the Formulas away before it.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)

I want to try get rid of this rep.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

In reality, I was drowning in negativity. I was stuck playing a part, too afraid to change, too afraid of losing my readers if I suddenly stopped being so mean.