Quotes About Transformation

You can't put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can't be destroyed.

Once we penetrate deeply into the human fabric, comparisons with art become vital, because the tantrika's search is precisely to transform life into a work of art—that is to say, into the discovery of the profound relationship of individual humanity to spatiality.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Revolutios don't occur among people who are thinking in the same old way. Can't changed social or economic conditions produce a revolution? Surely you don't mean that. People produce revolutions, not conditions.

So in a way it was true: as I grew, he shrank. And by this logic one day I would become a giant, and Edward would become nothing, invisible in the world. B

He had become simply Edward Bloom: Man. I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

All of a sudden my arms were full of the most fantastic life, frenetic, impossible to hold on to even if I'd wanted to, and I wanted to. But then all I was holding was the blanket, because my father had jumped into the river. And that's when I discovered my father hadn't been dying after all. He was changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward.

He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All

And that's when I discovered that my father hadn't been dying after all. He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in.

In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which

Transformation always requires radical action.

Work need not be concentrated in offices, companies can be run from homes, newspapers can be put out with almost no one in the newsroom; time spent commuting can be reduced; business meetings can be replaced by digital connecting. These impacts will last after lockdowns are well in the past. It took three years after 9/11 and more than seven years after the 2008 financial crisis for air travel in the United States to recover to the previous levels.

the result could well be the rise of a new breed of firm—Big Mobility companies that embody what would be the transformative world of Auto-Tech.

The focus in the pages of this book is on how the momentum of climate policies—powered by research and observation, by climate models, and by political mobilization and regulatory power, social activism, financial institutions, and deepening anxiety—will transform the energy system. "Net zero carbon" will be one of the great challenges of the decades ahead, not just politically but also in how people live their lives and in the costs of achieving it.

Starting off with a tiny trucking company that he built into a major enterprise, McLean went on to unleash the container revolution in world shipping that is the foundation of today's global economy.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Failure is not fatal, but failing to change might be.

There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person – this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life – finally have an opportunity to live.

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past – they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.