Transition famous quotes

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
-- Adam Lambert

#Thinking #Competition #Transition

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
-- Alain Badiou

#Destiny #Encounters #Transition

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
-- Alan Dundes

#Transition #Incorporation

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Transition #World #Boundaries

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
-- Alfred Kastler

#Light #Transition #Atoms

We are the transition from one education to the other.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Transition

The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.
-- Anatol Rapoport

#Communication #Engineering #Transition

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.
-- Andrew Dickson White

#Country #United States #Transition

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Years #Transition #Firsts

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Change #Transition #Might

Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?
-- Andy Cairns

#Climbing #Advice #Transition

I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
-- Ann Brashares

#Knowing #Transition #Blurry

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
-- Ann Brashares

#Transition #Moments #Midst

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.
-- Asger Jorn

#Art #Important #Transition

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Transition #Firsts #Stills

Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Vision #Transition #Attention

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
-- Barry Diller

#Transition #Firsts #Publishing

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isnt something I welcome wholeheartedly.
-- Barry Eisler

#Book #Suffering #Transition

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers high hardback margins essentially disappear.
-- Barry Eisler

#Transition #World #Paper

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.
-- Bernard Levin

#Men #Age #Transition

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Alarms #Typical #Transition

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
-- Bing Gordon

#Air #Transition #Bigs

If you don't take charge of your transition, it is a dark and lonely road
-- Brian Stann

#Lonely #Dark #Transition

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.
-- Brit Hume

#Transition #Journalism

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
-- Buzz Aldrin

#Moon #Space #Transition

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
-- Carl Paladino

#Son #Years #Transition

We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.
-- Carlos Barrios

#War #Environmental #Transition

I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine, and use products that create a sun-kissed glow that can transition from day to night.
-- Charlotte Ronson

#Night #Transition #Routine

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?
-- Chaz Bono

#Transition #Transgender #Rejected

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.
-- Chelsea Manning

#Support #Childhood #Transition

At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!
-- Christine Caine

#Strong #Devil #Transition

Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
-- Damian Thompson

#Country #Moving #Transition

Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.
-- Dan Miller

#Opportunity #Patterns #Transition

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Upset #Transition #Way

Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.
-- Darren Johnson

#Mind #Transition #Want

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.
-- David Lynch

#Creativity #Hopeful #Transition

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
-- David M. Raup

#Example #Transition

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
-- David M. Raup

#Example #Transition #Fossils

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.
-- Derek Barton

#Transition #Chemical Reactions #Chemicals

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.
-- Derek Barton

#Transition #Requirements #States

I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.
-- DJ Jazzy Jeff

#Echoes #Quality #Transition

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.
-- Don Johnson

#Acting #Transition #Lag

Death is the great transition.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Transition

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Yesterday #Transition #Today

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Heaven #Age #Transition

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
-- Emily Greene Balch

#Thinking #People #Transition

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.
-- Emma Caulfield

#Moving #Transition #Ends

Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
-- Emmitt Smith

#Football #Understanding #Transition

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.
-- Eric A. Havelock

#Years #Greek #Transition

For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.
-- Ernst Junger

#Spiritual #Transition #Camouflage

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.
-- Erwin McManus

#Hypocrite #Journey #Transition

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
-- Erwin McManus

#Hypocrite #Humility #Transition

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Jumping #Ideas #Transition

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.
-- Ester Dean

#Song #Writing #Transition

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
-- Ferdinand Mount

#Transition #Transformation #Passing

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
-- Frank Press

#Transition #Agendas #Smooth

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
-- Gavin Bryars

#Transition #Instruments

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
-- Georg Simmel

#Transition #Speak #Secrecy

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
-- George Gaylord Simpson

#Discovery #Transition #Unlikely

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
-- George Saintsbury

#Artist #Giving #Transition

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
-- Gillian Flynn

#Book #Transition

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer

#Engineering #Practice #Transition

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

#Transition #Transformation #Form

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.
-- Henri Lefebvre

#Creative #Overcoming #Transition

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.
-- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

#People #Transition #Machines

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
-- Hugh Shelton

#Giving #Transition #Looks

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.
-- Ian Bremmer

#Curves #Risk #Transition

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
-- Ice T

#Running #Military #Transition

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
-- Irwin Redlener

#War #Mind #Transition

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
-- J. I. Packer

#Criminals #Transition #Inheritance

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.
-- Jack Hyles

#Transition #Perplexed

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.
-- James Agee

#Order #Transition #Cop

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
-- James Fallows

#Transition #World #Way

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Age #Transition #Use

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.
-- Jean Vanier

#Community #Majority #Transition

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
-- Jeff Zucker

#Thinking #The End Of The Day #Transition

Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
-- Jeff Zucker

#Technology #Transition #Television

I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.
-- Jennifer Hudson

#Trying #Transition #Dresses

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Transition #Tough #Aggressive

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.
-- Jeremy Rifkin

#Energy #Transition #Fuel

No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.
-- Jim Balsillie

#Technology #Apples #Transition

Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!
-- Jim George

#Issues #Challenges #Transition

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
-- Jo Nesbo

#Reading #Transition #Culture

Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call this the time of the Great Turning.
-- Joanna Macy

#Transition #Generations #Looks

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
-- John C. Calhoun

#Errors #Confusion #Transition

The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!
-- John F. Carlson

#Eye #Soul #Transition

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.
-- John Medina

#Children #Joy #Transition

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
-- John Ousterhout

#Transition #Improvement #States

I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.
-- Jonathan Brandis

#Writing #Careers #Transition

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
-- Juan Ramon Jimenez

#Men #Justice #Transition

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.
-- Julia Gillard

#Wind #Transition #Abundance

After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
-- Karen Mills

#Years #President #Transition

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman
-- Karolina Kurkova

#Girl #Transition #Business Woman

Every market is in transition.
-- Kenneth Lay

#Transition

The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you can get stuck in the process of transition, in what’s been called a competitive authoritarian… a pseudo democratic regime.
-- Larry Diamond

#Country #Egypt #Transition

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
-- Laura Innes

#Gay #Transition #Intention

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.
-- Lennie James

#Play #Long #Transition

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.
-- Leonard Sax

#Boys #Racing #Transition

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.
-- Lisa Marie Presley

#Transition #Way #Turns

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
-- Marie Corelli

#Grief #Transition