Quotes About Transformation

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

You don't have to settle for what you are at this moment. You can work to make a difference. --Chex

Had supposed India was essentially unfathomable: it was too fast, too swiftly changing to yield to any categorisation. In Varanasi, however, I found a city whose spirit seemed to denote the whole.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

let us love winter, for it is the spring of genuis.

Become what you are.

God has in his power to make dazzling unmixed light spring from the somber depths of evening. He can also enclose the white explosion of day under the gloom of black clouds.

Cuando un dios envía a un hombre un gozo, antes forja a golpes su corazón ennegrecido.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.