Quotes About Transformation

We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

You need to WANT to change. You need to be willing to do the work.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

I was in 'The Outsiders,' which was a good launching pad for me, but 'The Karate Kid' sent me into a different stratosphere.

I work a lot with sounds based on stream of consciousness. I like the way it sounds, then I turn it into something that makes more sense.

The parts of life that drive me are getting that homeless person off the street and helping people receive the education they deserve. I want to be able to help the ones that want the help, but also guide the ones who don't so they are also in a better position.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't believe how much my dad has matured. Or, 'You wouldn't believe how your dad used to be.' There's always lots of words about how much he's changed.

I'm happy that kids are getting off the streets and making their families proud.

Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.

I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.

I was small until I was 15, then grew about 12 inches in a year and built up my strength in the gym.