Quotes About Transformation

Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things from Leaves of Grass

Is this ten a touch? Quivering me to a new identity

Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ...

A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away.

They say death's a going to bed; I doubt it; but anyhow life's a long undressing. We came in puling and naked, and every stitch must come off before we get out again. We must stand on our feet in all our Rabelaisian nakedness, and watch the world fade.

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks...

You and the quiet sky—I wish I had never gone away. What is the use of being one's self, if one is always changing?

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and I don't Want to be there. Go love. Do your thinking.

I have to burn the bridges to eternity

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.' Come help me celebrate mine.

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.

There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution

Blink your eye and look at it again. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is no more.

My head had been shaved, I was wearing Indian cotton robes, and my skin had turned a deep, chocolate brown-red from the sun," he recalled. "So I'm sitting there and my parents walked past me about five times and finally my mother came up and said 'Steve?' and I said 'Hi!

Innovation happens in stages.

Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.

Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but

The classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.