Quotes About Shift

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

That shift—the shift in his "we"—matters in how we read his engagement with Black Power and his later work.

There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.

But times do change and move continually.

But best of all, the fascination of the People I'd Like to Know. They pop up now and then in the shifting crowds, and are gone the next moment, leaving behind them a vague regret. Sometimes I call them the People I'd Like to Know and sometimes I call them the People I Know I'd Like, but it means much the same. Their faces flash by in the crowd, and are gone, but I recognize them instantly as belonging to my beloved circle of unknown friends.

a veces se nos va la vida en una discusión, en un deseo, y después pasa algo que lo cambia todo, lo trastoca todo, y el viejo deseo queda reducido a nada.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

the path to change is not through greater willpower and harder work, but rather through thinking differently.

The unchanging element is change—

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

an emerging racial imagery crisis for Europeans. The Europeans could not enslave a race that they also felt was one of the primary sources of the rise of their own civilization. A psychological shift occurred. Soon Blacks were psychologically erased from Egyptian history as anything other than slaves. Blacks were "scientifically" lowered to the level of simpleton, sensuous, inferior, brutish, bodily, and so on and so forth, and therefore "naturally" suited to slavery.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

I had a life once... now I have a computer.

What is the point in having a mind unless you can change it?

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change with them too].

Sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfennig?" He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. "It's the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man.

The year swung past the fulcrum of another equinox.

I will become invisible, he thinks. I will work only at night. I will be so careful they will never suspect me; I will be like the swallows on their gutter, the insects in their lawn, concealed, a scavenger, part of the scenery. When the trees shift in the wind, so I will shift, and when rain falls I will fall too. It will be a kind of disappearing.

If our beliefs don't evolve and shift and grow during our lives then I have to wonder if we are actually paying attention.

Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted

I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift.

I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.

People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

You can't be a punk all your life.