Quotes About Transformation

I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

If you find something that you're passionate about, your world can change.

Choose something you are passionate about - or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed.

Forget the past, and ask me what's next.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

It was very clear I wasn't giving my all in the past - not even close.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

America in 2016 is on the path to becoming what Germany was in 1867.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

There were two paths I was on: pre- and post-meeting my wife. I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't have headshots until I met her.

Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.

The hero's journey is, you know, one of the oldest story arcs that we have. And it's one, I think, that's especially projected onto cancer patients.

I've been woken up by things like the MeToo movement. I didn't realize how much of the patriarchy was ingrained within my spirit.

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.