Quotes About Transformation

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

Todo lo malo que se dice de la escuela nos oculta el número de niños que ha salvado de las taras, los prejuicios, la altivez, la ignorancia, la estupidez, la codicia, la inmovilidad o el fatalismo de las familias

À chaque rencontre, on constate qu'une vie s'est épanouie, aussi imprévisible que la forme d'un nuage

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (2009)

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

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.

Una tecnología implica una ideología, ya que afecta a la forma en que pensamos y actuamos y nos obliga a escoger varias formas de proceder. Nuevos artefactos generan su propia dinámica con consecuencias difíciles de predecir. Los inventores del automóvil no se imaginaban las consecuencias, y tampoco el inventor del World Wide Web podía imaginar la transformación social y cultural que está causando.

I think I liked you better when you were a contract killer.

Change is good, Nouredine. It keeps everyone on their toes. – Christopher Keller

He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.

He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical nectarines and Chinese lemons, reds of blood oranges from Mongolia, greens from Central American avocados and grapes from the Caucasus, even purple from dates, raisins, and eggplants that sprouted first in the Middle East.

I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

Ispod toga sam bio zapisao pre nekoliko ve?eri, kada mi je postalo jasno da Euridika više ne?e do?i: Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Ožiljkom jednim oboga?en.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

If you don't like who you are, don't just change your behavior—change your thoughts.

Most of us have heard that it takes 21 days to change a habit. Unfortunately, many experts now believe that it takes 21 days for any change to begin to take place.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

That's what growth is all about. It doesn't come when things are status quo. It happens only when something new is introduced, forcing every integral part to adjust. This is a universal law that can be applied on any level of life.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead