Quotes About Transformation

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.