Quotes About Transformation

The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

If you catch a lizard, its tail might fall off its body.]

Los Angeles was built as a machine of transformation. it mirrors industrialism and the triumph of progress over recalcitrance. But progress is a mixed bill. It has easily brought as much sorrow as joy. We must try to remember that its greatest success is the tilling of raw materials into a dubious finished product.

When organized religion organizes around the things Jesus would be pleased with, amazing things can happen.

Just because it is recorded in the Bible does not mean God agrees with it, nor did he create it. Instead, we see God working within the culture with the institutions and social patterns humans established, transforming them, but not approving of them.

But when we understand that we are called to be the church, not just go to church, it changes our identity. No longer do we go to a building where religious activities happen and that is "church." We now are the church all week long.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Happiness doesn't change you. Pain does.

Have you transformed the way you innovate?" was Benioff's big line at the 2012 Dreamforce show. Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.

We can't just fix the workplace. We need to fix capitalism itself—and not just by making a few small tweaks at the edges. The whole system needs a major, fundamental reboot.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

What left a mark No longer stings Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things. U2, "Grace

I am as yet a storm of zero force. Almost a breath.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

Innovate as a last resort.

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom. Atomic Habits

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom.

Relationships are how you transform as a person. Relationships are how you transcend your current limitations. Relationships are how you produce results. Relationships are the purpose of life.

The ways in which art history has approached these tasks has changed over time.

The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys. The Rio Negro had given him Daniela. One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least.

The bones changed everything.