Quotes About Shift

Historian Daniel Boorstin once noted a shift in American values that had replaced the classic hero with the celebrity. "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image. . . . The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media." He added, darkly: "The very agency which first makes the celebrity in the long run inevitably destroys him. He will be destroyed, as he was made, by publicity.

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

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

Have you noticed how normally this line is moving?

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

we're only at the beginning of the sea change that the Audience Revolution is bringing to our economy.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

Earth had done just that over the last few hundred years.

A fourth factor is a larger sea change in the way we view history.With

After the revolution, comes other people.

Change whether that is good or not.

Sometimes the smallest things can often make the biggest difference.

The world had changed since place names were invented.

I had rarely before paid much attention to the natural world. But my exposure to traditional magicians and seers was shifting my senses; I became increasingly susceptible to the solicitations of nonhuman things. In the course of struggling to decipher the magicians' odd gestures or to fathom their constant spoken references to powers unseen and unheard, I began to see and to hear in a manner I never had before.

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

I'm not disabled I am parked in transition

Understanding the Agricultural Revolution is a first step toward understanding the Information Revolution. The introduction of tilling and harvesting provides a paradigm example of how an apparently simple shift in the character of work can radically alter the organization of society.

DECIPHERING THE LOGIC OF EXTORTION To recognize the megapolitical implications of the current shift to the Information Age, you have to strip away the cant and focus on the real logic of violence in society. This is like stripping away the layers of an overripe onion. It may bring tears to your eyes, but don't look away.

If our deductions are correct, the politics of the next century will be much more varied and less important than that to which we have become accustomed.

James Dale Davidson

The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.