Quotes About Transformation

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.

I started at HSN in May of 2006, and by October, we had rolled out a new brand image, a new tagline, a new vision statement, a new customer manifesto, and new advertising.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country, blues, and early rock 'n' roll that he heard at night on a Louisiana radio station whose signal came in strong and clear.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

We do not need more status quo.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.

You can't stay who you are... Things change and you have to be able to adapt.

The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script.