Quotes About Transformation

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

I was sitting in the nosebleeds eating hot dogs and watching Georges St. Pierre win the world title from Matt Hughes. Like never in my wildest dreams if someone would have tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Hey, seven years from now you're going to be down there doing the same thing' would I have believed them.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-up books antedate hip hop sampling by decades. Shakespeare remixed passages of Holinshed's 'Chronicles' in 'Henry VI.' Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' embeds the French national anthem.

The day I heard Hank Williams for the first time, my life changed.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I look up to Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. I'm a huge fan of their work. I also like actors who really transform themselves, like Joaquin Phoenix. And I loved Robin Williams growing up. He does comedy and drama so brilliantly.

To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.

I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

Melbourne is where the Crown story started. It's a testament to the vision and work of Lloyd Williams and Jeff Kennett - our resort helped transform Melbourne and put the city on the map for international tourists.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.