Quotes About Transformation

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.

Ar fi trebuit s? fiu altceva, ceva ce nu simte nici un fel de durere. La noapte, reflect? el, frem?tând de anticipaÈ›ie, voi fugi de durere. ?i nu m? voi mai întoarce niciodat?.

our homes, communities, country, and on our planet. Instead of forever being blamed for the excesses that put our planet on the destructive path, perhaps we can be viewed as the generation that rose above comfort and decadence to turn things around.

Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance.

What happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?

Successful leaders need more than good intentions; they need to transform hopes and plans into results. Noble failure may be poetic but it is also unsatisfying.

The version of Christianity that is dying today is rooted in the grossly misunderstood concept of atonement

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

Erich Fromm, a German-American psychologist and author, reminds us that "people never think their way into new ways of acting, they always act their way into new ways of thinking.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Little seed! thy hidden virtue Stirs Time's womb; The bright promise thou art heir to Lights the tomb.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Arthur Gremlin was doing a lot of smiling these days. He had seemed pretty tense when he first joined the firm, but the more time he spent with me, and the more he saw me in action, the more he relaxed. Finally after watching me spend three entire days trying to get a carton of milk open, he wiped the milk off his face and relaxed completely for the first time. It's like something that had been nagging at him finally went away.

he executed a 360-degree turn that made him no friends,

The same issues illuminate the transformation of American Catholicism. This study emphasizes the period between World War I and the early 1970s, when the Catholic system of parishes and schools first expanded into every section of the northern cities, and then, within the last quarter century, began a retreat from what now seemed institutional hubris.

Mamo, the Italian word for marble, comes from the Greek marmairein, meaning "to shine". Geologically speaking, marble is limestone transformed by the heat and pressure of the earth's crust into a medium-hard, crystalline rock. Cold to the touch, marble yields willingly to the sculptor's chisel. Over time, white statuary acquires an ivory patina remarkably evocative of the warmth of human flesh.

The Roman emperor, Augustus famously boasted that he had inherited a city of brick and was leaving one of marble.

Before Starrett Bros. & Eken could start work on what would be the world's tallest building, they had to tear down what had been the city's largest hotel, and everyone agreed it would be no easy task.

In the most literal sense they are impossible to reform because they have ceased to be human, having been transformed into abstract structures of superb efficiency, independent of lasting human control survival mechanisms. This is not a devil you can wrestle with as Daniel Webster did with Old Scratch, but one that has to be starved to death by depriving it of victims.

People can change, but systems cannot without losing their structural integrity.

He had changed. And not for the good. He was using strong language - filthy in her estimation - and had become totally immersed in the restoration of the motorcycle.