Quotes About Transformation

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.

There are decades where nothing happens," Edney said. "And there are weeks where decades happen," Beth said, completing the Lenin quote that was their coded introduction.

slap the word vintage on a ratty t-shirt, a rusted refrigerator, a dented Pontiac, or an old pair of reading glasses and suddenly it wasn't an outdated, beat-up, broken piece of crap; it was stylish. It was hot. It was cutting edge.

Eden Alternative and the Green House Project

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

When you learn to nurture and love yourself as you would another When you give yourself that attention Things change very fast Things move in you

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

We faced tremendous odds with an improbable chance of survival. Singapore was not a natural country but man-made, a trading post the British had developed into a nodal point in their worldwide maritime empire. We inherited the island without its hinterland, a heart without a body.

said that when you die and go to heaven, you get your body back. I can finally get rid of this

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white.

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way.

She'd been in survival mode for so long that she hadn't been able to dream about her future. She was finally free to do so.

Fortunes are wrung from the smallest of things That once were ignored, turning men into kings.

For death is but a passing phase of Life; A change of dress, a disrobing; A birth into the unborn again; A commencing where we ended; A starting where we stopped to rest; A crossroad of Eternity; A giving up of something, to possess all things. The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real.

p.34: Peter Drucker. La innovación es la competencia central de la empresa moderna competitiva. Tiene que establecerse en el corazón de la organización desde el principio, ALIMENTARSE CONTINUAMENTE CON INVERSIONES Y APOYO EJECUTIVO, y tiene que TRANSFORMARSE SISTEMÁTICAMENTE EN VALOR para la firma.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.