Quotes About Transformation

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Successful software always gets changed.

Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

Learning means change.

When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithfully to him until you can make your own world tremble constantly.

I am more than the person I was, I am more than who I am, and I am excited about who I have yet become.

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.