Quotes About Transformation

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desires

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you'll have to make the changes you've always needed.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor's capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.

Finally, under Mao Zedong the project of destroying the old core of Chinese identity was carried to a grim conclusion with a violent and totalistic resolve. But, like a forest fire that clears the way for new growth, it may have ironically also helped prepare the way to usher in a spectacular new kind of economic growth under his successor, Deng Xiaoping.

Calling transforms life so that even the commonplace and menial are invested with the splendour of the ordinary.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

The way of the disciple is a different and deeper way of learning.

One overall conclusion is plain: under the weight of the combined impact of exploding pluralism, the expansion of the state, and emerging separationism, the early American settlement, so brilliantly described by Tocqueville, is gone, and gone for good.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown

Kurbanlar. gerçek bir ahlak döneminin kurbanlar?. Asl?nda her ikimiz de buyuz. Bir yerlerde devrim patlak verecek: Ama eski ahlak ölçüsü yolumuzu t?kayarak yeryüzünde de?i?mez biçimde duracak. Oysa denizde ne dalgalar patlar. Devrime kat?lmadan dipteki sular sakin, uyan?k ama uyu?mu? gibi durur.