Quotes About Shift

If they are all so obsessed with change they should begin by changing for dinner.

ALEXANDER (cont.):     How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still.

the change was adjustment without improvement.

The only way to change the order, she thought, was not to do something differently, but to do a different thing.

ebb and flow

first transform what you think.

Life is a kaleidoscope, like I said. One minute things seem one way; next minute clicks you up a whole new picture.

The victory of conservatism and the profound transformation brought about over the course of the next three decades was thus far from inevitable: it took an intellectual revolution.

Conservatism—not to mention the ideological Right—was a minority preference in the decades following World War II.

What we have been watching is the steady shift of public responsibility onto the private sector to no discernible collective advantage.

out! So we had to get up and go somewhere else, because he was really cross.

weak thought is always thought about its most recent developments.

Change challenges our current reality by forcing a new reality to rush in.

Precisely why this downturn in social values should have come about is not entirely clear.

Equilibrium is dead

A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs.

processes—the engines of flux—are now more important than products.

the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new.

Daylight Savings" Like the money the light doesn't go as far these days

Somewhere during Darwin's long journey, however, his ideas about the world shifted and he began peering at it freshly, from a different point of view. That shift ultimately led him to

we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future

Have you ever thought that if one thing hadn't happened, a whole set of things never would have either? Like dominoes in time, a single event kicked off an unstoppable series of changes that gained momentum and spun out of control, and nothing was ever the same again. Don't ever doubt that a mere second can change your life forever.

The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1 400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.