Quotes About Transformation

Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, Reconstruction to the very last.

Time makes us pointless.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

I wanted another drink; I wanted another bottle; I wanted to drain the river Lethe till I was ready to be born again.

God, help me to live a life for You. I long to be a whole person – consistent and united. Reach into my spirit and make me whole

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be.

People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.

Managers manage a process they've seen before, and they react to the outside world, striving to make that process as fast and as cheap as possible. Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.

Marketing is the act of making change happen. Making is insufficient. You haven't made an impact until you've changed someone.

Marketing is one of our greatest callings. It's the work of positive change.

Deep change is difficult, and worth it

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

The alternative to tourism The linchpin, the engaged one, the graceful actor in an unfolding play—these people don't seek to only inspect. They're not traveling in order to tick a checkbox. Instead, they open themselves to the world they bought a ticket to, knowing full well that they will be changed.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

the best ideas require significant change. They fly in the face of the status quo, and inertia is a powerful force.

Marketers make things better by making change happen.

Fact is, the first 100 years of our country's history were about who could build the biggest, most efficient farm. And the second century focused on the race to build factories. Welcome to the third century, folks. The third century is about ideas.

The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird.

The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.

We made the "doing" easier, which is precisely why we need to outsource that part of our job and focus all our energy onto the hard work of making change happen.