Quotes About Shift

The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two a.m. changes to six a.m.

You're not quite what I had in mind," she said. "What?" "I was thinking of getting a cat.

There's thinking outside the box and then there's failing to be able to find the box in the first place. You can't appreciate the new model until you understand the old one and why it isn't working anymore.

I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing.

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

Energy cannot be lost, only transformed; where do the words go?

fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Is it failure for morning to become afternoon?

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

How Sunday into Monday melts!

The status quo cannot work.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.