Quotes About Transformation

Let's make Oakland a model city.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

I've always been obsessed with health and fitness and hence been a firm believer that change needs to begin from the inside!

I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a while that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again.

dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.

Think of how hot a fire must be to call out the will of iron that is in the ore. Iron is strong against every force except the one that made it into iron.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

He was released in 2006, and his memoir, the book for which he was getting the prize in Dayton, In the Place of Justice, tells his story, from being a confused kid caught in a bank robbery gone bad, to a man who had fully taken

Zm?? své myÅ¡lenky a zmÄ›níÅ¡ celý svÄ›t kolem sebe.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

The creative thought principle is very important, for as Gautama Buddha declared, "The mind is everything; what you think you become.