Quotes About Transformation

Five hundred years ago, Mexico, home to the Aztec state, was certainly richer than the polities to the north, and the United States did not pull ahead of Mexico until the nineteenth century. South and North Korea were economically, as well as socially and culturally, indistinguishable before the country was divided at the 38th parallel after the Second World War. Similarly, most of the huge economic differences we observe around us today emerged over the last two hundred years.

Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power

La combinación de innovación tecnológica y organizativa proporciona el modelo para el progreso económico que transformó las economías mundiales que llegarían a ser ricas.

The decline of labor coercion is not the only factor transforming the corridor. Another important economic trend, but with more complex, multifaceted implications for liberty, is globalization.

Monster tidak terlahir keji begitu saja. Mereka tumbuh, berkembang, menjadi monster.

Do not be such a baby, he jeered, tugging my hands free. It hurts! I howled. Of course it does. He laughed. It hurt me too. Did you think becoming a vampire was easy? Get used to the pain. Much of it lies ahead.

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.

We don't grow fangs, you idiot!

I'm not a human anymore

Death is not the end. It is a midway state.

thing I was sure the Little People could never do. In a creaky, slow, mechanical tone — he spoke. "Name . . . not Lefty. Name . . . Harkat . . . Harkat Mulds." And his lips spread into a jagged gash, which was as close to a smile as he could come.

You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose? You would have been better off living five years as a human than five hundred as a monster.

What we are doing to develop leaders is not working! We are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease.

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken.

Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage—oop!—yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel.

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again.

The author would also like to acknowledge the makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into mutant by freak accident, with the mutant thereafter driven by a strange hybrid of the most rancid bitterness and the most outrageous hope to do very, very odd and silly things, many times in the name of Good. The makers of comic books seemed to be onto something there.

A few years ago" has a comfortable distance. The blood is dry, the scabs hardened, peeled. Early on was different.

The effect of his appearance on the world was profound. He walked through the city not as a poor Tenderloin kid, his baggy clothes shrouding him with negative assumptions, but as Rupert, the preppy cartoon bear, who was welcome anywhere. He became someone the adults he encountered—at his high school, at the mosque, at any store he entered—trusted and wanted around.