Quotes About Shift

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

My problem is that what I like changes from week to week. Even the stuff in my suitcase right now I don't like any more.

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.

Nothing which is, is static.

power ceases in the instant of repose, it resides in the moment of transition

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Permanence is but a word of degrees.

This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.

Part of the process of awakening is recognizing that the realities we thought were absolute are only relative. All you have to do is shift from one reality to another once, and your attachment to what you thought was real starts to collapse. Once the seed of awakening sprouts in you, there's no choice—there's no turning back.

If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard.

It was indeed a time between, one second their thoughts all brambled airedale, the next all silken slumbering cat. It

And he was gesturing up through the trees above to show them how it was woven across the sky or how the sky was woven into the trees, he wasn't sure which. But there it was, he smiled, and the weaving went on, green and blue, if you watched and saw the forest shift its humming loom.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as your change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

His eyes took on a different color. It was a subtle shift, a flex, like a man stepping out from the shade of a tree into sunlight on a cloudy day.

El gradualismo —las escasas modificaciones en nuestro sistema político y económico— es inadecuado para la tarea que tenemos entre manos. Lo que se necesita son cambios drásticos

All change is for the worse.