Quotes About Transformation

When Paul went to prison, I cried at first. Not for Paul but for me. Then I started to behave strangely. Wild. Restless.

Carter once told me that we shouldn't fear putting the past behind us. He said that God is about doing new things—creating beauty out of the ashes of despair and defeat.

I want to believe in a new thing, Lord. I want that more than anything. I want to forget the old things—the bad and ugly things that have sent me here. Please let me see your hand in all of this. Let me see the path through this wilderness.

It would be nice if we could snap our fingers and become better people instantly," Mother sounded sympathetic. "Unfortunately, change is a journey we must take one step at a time. Give it over to God and rest in Him.

very difficult to cross, and there are still problems with the Indians from time to time. There are the renegade bands to contend with." Adrian nodded and fixed her with an intense gaze. "There are troubles, to be sure, but the railroad is going to change your world, Miss Gallatin.

changes to come.

God is bigger than our pain and sorrows. He's bigger than our guilt. He is able to take anything we give Him and turn it around for good.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If someone were sketching her they would use clear, strong lines, whereas before they might have used faint marks and more shading. She was like a fossil that's been cleaned and set so everyone can see what it is.

It's not that human beings are resisting. Its that they do not have the capacity to start from a clean sheet of paper.

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

By learning to uncover the concealed aspects of your current conversations and learning to engage in different types of new conversation, you can alter the way you are being, which, in turn, alters what's possible.

But you can invent a future that is not based on the past and is unrelated to the past.

Some of your "missing and essential" components can be accomplished through continuous improvement. Others will require transformations. All of them will have to be organized and coordinated.

TRANSFORMATION is a function of altering the way you are being—to create something that is currently not possible in your reality.

Being As it pertains to transformation, the realm of possibility in which something exists, rather than an emotional or behavioral state. The way you are being at any given time determines what's possible.

Transformation An alteration in the arena of context. You alter the way you are being to create results that are not currently possible. Transformation provides the creation of that which does not yet exist in the organization and its leaders—a new realm of possibility leading to a new realm of results.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

What are you interested in accomplishing that requires you to reinvent yourself to accomplish it? What would you be committed to accomplishing—if only it were possible? What's worth accomplishing—so much so that it would be worth re-inventing your whole self?

Philip Amato, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Wesley Emerson, Werner Erhard, Fernando Flores, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Goldstein, Martin Heidegger, Joan Holmes, Randy MacNamara, Jim Selman, William Shakespeare, and Constantine Stanislavsky.

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

You probably already know what your persistent, unwanted conditions are. (A clue is: They are the things that you complain the most about.)

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

Then let me ask you something, Terry. In terms of the whole situation, if you could miraculously have your relationship with your boss altered, what would you have it be?