Quotes About Transformation

The hardest thing about 'Mulan' is to put yourself in that circumstance and to have the answer be organic, and not be acting.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.

I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world.

Most people don't remember the guy from 'The Real World.' They know the guy who is a professional, a father, and a friend that gives great advice.

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.