Quotes About Transformation

When her long fingers clamped around Michelle's in a handshake, Michelle wondered if the woman used to call herself Carl.

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He was no longer, at least in his mind, the most wanted man in America. He was an analyst, a seer, a prognosticator going over his reams of data, moving their pieces, twisting them, testing them, discounting some, fleshing out others, slowly transforming disjointed intelligence into something that made sense.

You really have changed, Eddie. What gives?" "The way I had been caused me to lose what was most important to me. Now, I could have been an idiot and doubled down on that. But I decided to use my brain and change how I was conducting myself. Because if you keep doing the same thing over and over, how can you expect a different result?

It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger's personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger's footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I'm a stranger in my own body.

silhouette transformed into a man with wide

Fall was nearly here, but summer was still hanging on, dragging its heat-flamed and moisture-rich knuckles across the stark tundra.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.

However, it has been found that even the elementary particles can be created, annihilated and transformed, and this indicates that not even these can be ultimate substances but, rather, that they too are relatively constant forms, abstracted from some deeper level of movement.

Look up here, I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen Everybody knows me now - Lazarus

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

And the stars look very different today.

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been

Of course none compare to the exponential growth unleashed by late-20th Century America's synergy of government, enterprise and unleashed individual competitiveness. One result was the first society transforming itself from the feudal pyramid of privilege to a diamond shape[227] whose vast and healthy and well-educated middle class proved to be the generator of nearly all our great accomplishments.

By one way of reckoning, we transformed several hundred cubic kilometers of fossil fuels into two cubic kilometers of human beings.

Like California . . . contemporary New Zealand had gradually transformed its longstanding tradition of tolerance into a positive fetish for eccentricity.

And yet we've flashed from caveman to world wrecker in just three hundred generations.

And yet we've flashed from caveman to world wrecker in just three hundred generations. One moment there are these barefoot Neolithic hunters, bickering over a frozen caribou carcass. Turn around, and their children's children talk about tapping energy from pulsars.

Psychology often presents individuals as if they are frozen in time and space, describing their score on an intelligence or personality test, how they remember or what their inner conflicts are. All imply that people are fixed and that a description of them at one point in time will inevitably be true of them at another.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

Show some courage—be the leader you want to be. Without legacy issues hanging over your head, you'll be able to focus on building up your business to compete better and win, and you'll channel the money you save by resolving issues proactively back into the business. You won't reap all of the financial benefits—your successors will inherit them as well. What you will reap is a legacy; a reputation as a strong, transformational leader.

Understand the significance of mind-set and culture. If the mind-set doesn't change, operations won't change either.

When you walk, how can you let go of your old habits of tension and move as an expression of the love you feel you are at depth? At your job, how can you work as the love you truly are? What changes do you need to make in your daily life-rituals so that love can radiate through your every breath, action, and relationship?