Great Transformation Quotes

#1. I feel on the verge of a great transformation, which may be as simple as becoming interested in other things.

Edward St. Aubyn

#2. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Zachary Quinto

#3. 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

#4. Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

Rajneesh

#5. Death is a great transformation. But it is not an end.

Ambelin Kwaymullina

#6. The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.

John O'Donohue

#7. A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

Edmund Phelps

#8. When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

Evan Osnos

#9. The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hermann Hesse

#10. From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.

Eugene Kennedy

#11. A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

Alan Alda

#12. Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

James C. Collins

#13. Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

#15. They are being offered a narrative, an historical story whose hope of 'salvation' lies not in a flight from history but in a great convulsive change within history, a transformation in which there will be continuity with the present as well as discontinuity.

N. T. Wright

#16. The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering

Dalai Lama

#17. The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

Girdhar Joshi

#18. The Universe is a closed system. Nothing is ever created or destroyed,
things are merely transformed.
Thus, transformation is the way of the Universe. This is the great lesson human beings must learn.

G. Mark Phillips

#19. I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Debbie Ford

#20. I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

Jay Parini

#21. This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time ... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

Bede Griffiths

#22. I thanked the lucky stars for my great metabolism, because Karsen had showed me pictures of her mom once and it was scary the transformation she underwent after popping three kids out. She went from a small, dainty beauty to a giant pineapple blob of a body.

Holly Hood

#23. The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

Paulo Coelho

#24. Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Satish Kumar

#26. This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.

Steve Ballmer

#27. The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. Death is the great disruptor; it thrusts us opposite life's mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth; from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew.

B.G. Bowers

#29. The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.

Stacie Hammond

#30. Starting with the Renaissance and running through the Enlightenment, there occurred what we might call "the great reversal." Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were in - and the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history.

Ken Wilber

#31. I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

Nikki Rowe

#32. I can feel myself gently slipping away into a light trance by the quarter moon light as the candles are blown out, and my last thought is that we have gone back to the jungle, back to the great green womb - we have returned full circle from whence we came ...

Rak Razam

#33. Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

Richard Rohr

#34. You would not experiencing great change unless you were ready for the transformation. Embrace the new you that's emerging.

Leeza Donatella

#35. When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

Confucius

#36. Creating - that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#37. The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.

Norman Mailer

#38. Become great in God's eyes so as to bring freedom to your people

Sunday Adelaja