Quotes About Transitions

The 1760s were followed by the American Revolution, the 1850s by Civil War, the 1920s by the Great Depression and World War II. All these Unraveling eras were followed by bone-jarring Crises so monumental that, by their end, American society emerged in a wholly new

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

What I think it should have done was realize that preparing customers for transitions is just like getting them through the new product adoption process, except in reverse.

There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world

My concern always has been with how—not why—people make transitions out of relationships. Many times the people I talked to did not understand why themselves. Even when they thought they knew, the reasons changed, so that what seemed to explain it at one time often did not seem important six months later.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow;

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before before I have a chance to know her better.

As difficult as these are, the transitions in our private lives are harder.

Man was made for conflict, not for rest," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.[13] "In action is his power; not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.

The fundamentally important issue in the design of constitutions is to enable rather than hinder economic transitions that are not well understood in advance.

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

Everyone makes me happy some people when they come into my life, others when they go.

Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.

This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn't want to forget a single one.

The best text slides convey their message as starkly and simply as possible. They do not waste words (or slides) on transitional or introductory points, which can and should be stated orally. This means of course that the slides by themselves will not be intelligible as a handout to someone who has not attended the presentation.

It was, however, the long, long nights, far more than the wonderful days, which impregnated my future--the dark, still nights full of hints and fine transitions, shadowy terrors, fleeting visions and marvelous dreams.

Time flies when you're on an emotional roller coaster.

All I could see in the world were beginnings and endings: moments to survive, record, and, once recorded, safely forget. I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.

Now, in fresh surrender, we give you our planning for the next season of our lives. Show us the way we should go through our transitions—transitions of age and stage, career and calling, health and finances, relationships and ministries. Write stories of redemption beyond our wildest dreams and hopes. It's all about you, Jesus—not us, you.