Quotes About Transformation

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

I just feel like a completely different person confidence-wise, just being able to walk around feeling like an actual athlete that's in pretty good shape.

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

We used to be such prima donnas.

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

My dream is to turn Europe into 300 million princes.

Blake & Murphy and I used to be best friends. They helped me discover who I am. They taught me that Bliss was good, but bad is better. Because of the boys, I was able to really express who I am instead of being the pixie princess I was pretending to be.

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.

This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.