Quotes About Shift

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

Change alone is unchanging.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

It was astonishing how quickly life could change, how the ground moved beneath you and the landscape you thought you were living in turned out to be entirely different. Like waking up after an earthquake.

Nothing stands still. Things are either...

Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward.

We are come not only past the century's closing, he thought, the millennium's turning, but to the end of something else. Era? Paradigm? Everywhere, the signs of closure.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places, that had once belonged to cigarettes, now belonged to phones.

Everything changed.

You're certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don't know into what.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

Death isn't what it used to be

Guv," she said to Baron. "What do you know about how to …" She opened and clenched her hands. "How to make big shit go into something little?

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

How can you make your change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences?

make a switch, you need to script the critical moves

If you're struggling to make a transition, create a defining moment that draws a dividing line between Old You and New You.