Quotes About Shift

In the past, adulthood arrived at twenty, middle age at forty, and old age at fifty. Today adolescence lasts until past thirty or forty, maturity comes around sixty, and old age starts at eighty. This is the baby boomers' achievement. Over the last half century they have redefined many cultural aspects for their convenience.

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust.

When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

It is the beginning of the end.

Cost little less than new before they're ended.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

There is nothing permanent except change.

We change, whether we like it or not.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Life is always at some turning point.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Nothing in this world is permanent.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Everything changes but change itself.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.