Quotes About Shift

Even small changes in our Big Assumptions can have big implications for permanently altering our once-captivating equilibrium.

Okay, I'll move the lawn chairs. (Axel)

The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That's what happened to you. The damage was physical. It's as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was.

It is amazing how the world can change, he thought, during the life span of a fruitcake.

Drifting is what one does

Advocates of redefining "marriage" as sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership to accommodate same-sex relationships are increasingly confirming the point that this shift erodes the basis for permanence and exclusivity in any relationship.1

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are—how you think and how you look at the world.

You not only change what you do, but in a very real way, you also change who you are. Or at least, how you think.

and now I did not even have my Saturdays to look forward to.

Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

Oh, well, I won't call you 'Johnny' any more. After this I'll call you 'Sammy,' which was, of course, adding fuel to the fire.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, she said with a sigh.

?nsanlar?n idealleri bazen de?i?ir.

DeÄŸiÅŸimler tamamen keyifli olmasa da harika ÅŸeylerdir.

Competition for the best leaders will be intense. One way to ensure that you have the right people in the right jobs in this rapidly shifting environment is by writing job descriptions for the kind of people you need in each job as it will exist tomorrow, then match those descriptions against the talents and abilities of the peole holding those jobs today.

Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

That was what I feared most: that he just wasn't excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn't sleep facing me anymore, or the way he'd stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.

Be the opposite of you :

People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evidence of the time that has passed, of the things that have happened.

The last time always seems sad, but it isn't really. The end of one thing is only the beginning of another.

The world turns upside down every day.

The sad vicissitude of things.