Transformation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
-- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -
Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.
-- Alexandra Roach -
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
-- Ana Castillo -
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
-- Anais Nin -
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
-- Anais Nin -
The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
-- Andrew Schneider -
The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.
-- Anodea Judith -
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
-- Archie Shepp -
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
-- Binyavanga Wainaina -
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
-- Bob Blumer -
The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.
-- Bob Hoskins -
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
-- Cherrie Moraga -
Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.
-- Chris Corrigan -
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
-- Chris Ware -
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
-- Cory Booker -
Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.
-- Dalai Lama -
Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience
-- David A. Kolb -
It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
-- David Cameron -
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
-- David Keirsey -
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.
-- David Malouf -
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
-- David Platt -
The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
-- David Platt -
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis...
-- David Rockefeller -
Every intention is a trigger for transformation.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
-- Desmond Tutu -
The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
-- Don Rickles -
What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
-- Donald Fagen -
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
-- Donald Miller -
There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
-- Edgar Degas -
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
-- Elias Canetti -
I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.
-- Eric Greitens -
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
-- Ernst Mayr -
All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.
-- Eugene Burger -
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 -
For some, transformation comes quickly, but for most of us, the changes are gradual.
-- Florence Littauer -
Yoga is the practice of radical transformation
-- Georg Feuerstein -
There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.
-- Glen David Gold -
The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.
-- Gordon Brown -
Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.
-- Grace Hartigan -
The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.
-- Gregg Braden -
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
-- Gustav Landauer -
Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
-- Harry Mathews -
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
-- Helen Vendler -
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
-- Henepola Gunaratana -
The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.
-- Herb Asher -
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
-- Huston Smith -
It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least radically reduce it
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
-- Jack Zipes -
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.
-- Jane Roberts -
You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.
-- Jeff Weiner -
It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!
-- Jessica Hagedorn -
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.
-- Jillian Michaels -
Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity
-- Jillian Michaels -
Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.
-- Jillian Michaels -
Remember that transformation is a present activity.
-- Jillian Michaels -
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
-- Johann Most -
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
-- John Paul Caponigro -
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
-- John Turturro -
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.
-- John von Neumann -
We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.
-- John W. Snow -
As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.
-- Julia Hill -
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen -
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
-- Katrina Kenison -
We go through transformations when we are dealing with this world (spirit world). Go out and find whatever makes your spirit at peace.
-- Kofi Awoonor -
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
-- Lewis Mumford -
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.
-- Marcelo Gleiser -
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.
-- Maria Montessori -
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
-- Marilyn Ferguson -
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.
-- Marilyn Manson -
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that
-- Mario Testino -
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
-- Mark Strong -
I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.
-- Martha Rosler -
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.
-- Mary Gauthier -
For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.
-- Merce Cunningham -
Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss -
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.
-- Naomi Klein -
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
-- Natalie Wood -
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
-- Natan Sharansky -
The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.
-- Neil T Anderson
