Top 100 Quotes About Shift
#2. Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
T. S. Eliot
#3. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#4. The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
#5. When it comes to your relationships, don't burn the bridge. When it comes to making career/brand shift, burn the bridge to the ground.
Assegid Habtewold
#6. When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.
John Yokoyama
#7. With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.
Mitsuo Fuchida
#8. Around them, the hotel restaurant was busy. Last shift's prostitutes mixed with the next shift's tourists and businessmen at the cheap pink-lit buffet.
James S.A. Corey
#9. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!
Rick Yancey
#10. As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.
Daniel Humm
#11. I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.
Madeline Miller
#12. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.
Katarina Bivald
#13. I probably shouldn't even be out here this early by myself, but it's the only only way I can get to work and I have to work mornings because this is the only shift I can get at the only job I can get.
Catherine Clark
#14. What if the house catches fire?"
"Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you'll go down with the ship. If there's a tornado, I'll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?
Rachel Vincent
#15. The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.
Klaus Schwab
#16. I watched my parents battle, work night shift, work two jobs. That's toughness. That's toughness ... That's something; it all carries over from your parents, and I was fortunate to have both parents in my life.
Mo Williams
#18. When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".
Peter Kinderman
#19. The older I get, the more I'm drawn to the smaller films, but I still hope to keep bigger films in my repertoire. It's just maybe going to be a shift in focus, but I'll definitely still hopefully be kicking around in those.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#20. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.
Liu Cixin
#21. It wasn't until the morning after my uneventful shift, when I wake up, dazed and tense and frustrated as hell, that I realize I'm getting obsessed with that girl, my partner, and this thing is running me ragged.
Charlotte Penn Clark
#22. In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#23. A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.
Darell Hammond
#24. Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.
George Carlin
#25. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
David Suzuki
#26. I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
John C. Reilly
#27. These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.
Viktor Khristenko
#28. Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.
Hannah Kent
#29. So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at.
Eric Fellner
#30. You don't live until you begin to live for keeping
Sunday Adelaja
#31. By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.
Marilyn Ferguson
#32. A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume
an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.
John Dewey
#34. With families, your priorities shift. You're not going to be like, 'Let's go out on tour year-round.' I have kids in school. You have to lay things out.
Drew Lachey
#35. Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.
Jefferson Han
#36. Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Susan Griffin
#37. Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.
Evgeny Morozov
#38. In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#39. I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
Pete Wentz
#40. Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
Laurie Graham
#41. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.
Ingrid Betancourt
#42. CUSTOMER: I'm always on night shift at work.
BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you're buying so many vampire novels?
CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.
Jen Campbell
#43. The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn't tell us how far away they are to begin with.
Bill Bryson
#44. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot
#45. What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#46. The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.
Donald Knuth
#47. The instantaneous shift from calm to calamity. The slowing of time. Every sense suddenly wire-taut and screaming.
Robert Galbraith
#48. My life was full of drama, with the highs and lows of Tyler's daily mood swings and my private innuendos with Vandenberg. There'd never been a movie made that could permanently shift my mood away from my disappointment with myself.
J.C. Patrick
#49. Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.
Chelsea Handler
#50. I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder
#51. The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.
Noam Chomsky
#52. The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by
Margaret Beckett
#53. The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#54. Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts.
Julian Barnes
#55. Women are in a position now to voice their opinion ... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.
Snoop Dogg
#56. The shift in my thinking began when I realized that truth sets us free and that Jesus is the truth. In
Neil T. Anderson
#57. GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
Lisa Washington
#58. We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.
Robert Lanza
#59. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. A
Adriana Trigiani
#60. The trick is to shift the emphasis in any meeting away from the source of an idea and onto the idea itself.
Ed Catmull
#61. There have been a few workers we had to deep-freeze, some who aren't fit for another shift.
Hugh Howey
#62. With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
Thomas Browne
#63. All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below ... perfect shadows that shift and glow ... perfect shadows that shift and grow ... " "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.
Maggie Stiefvater
#64. The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.
Maureen Dowd
#65. I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.
Brian Grazer
#66. Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.
Frederick Lenz
#67. The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
Alexander Payne
#68. What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.
Jim Stengel
#69. The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
Anne Waldman
#70. This Yes is about giving yourself the permission to shift the focus of what is a priority from what's good for you over to what makes you feel good.
Shonda Rhimes
#71. Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing
Susan Jeffers
#72. I long to see a radical shift in philanthropy that will come to characterize the 21st century. That is, a reclaiming of the root meaning of philanthropy: love of what it means to human.
Valaida Fullwood
#73. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction
Sunday Adelaja
#74. I can barely stay awake," Metias had told me after his first night shift. "Does she honestly think we can guard anything after pulling an all-nighter? I was so out of it today that the Colonies' Chancellor himself could've walked into Batalla Hall and I wouldn't have known it.
Marie Lu
#75. There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.
Nita Leland
#77. good writers know how to shift around their alphbet
Smrithi Eswar
#78. There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. Even in bold. Even in underlined bold italic. I need something else, some punctuation mark not yet invented.
Glen Duncan
#79. As the shift in valuable skills continues, organizations are finding not only that they have no jobs for the disengaged and socially inept, but that such people are toxic to the enterprise and must be removed.
Geoff Colvin
#80. Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can't do it any longer.
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money's sake.
Kliph Nesteroff
#82. Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.
James Wan
#83. I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?
Steve Ballmer
#84. An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.
Betty Edwards
#85. There's a shift to mobile apps; I'd like to see a more pervasive communications experience, and I think Skype can contribute to that.
Tony Bates
#86. One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.
Bryant McGill
#87. The Bright Young People. The press love and hate them - they celebrate them, they vilify them, and they know full well that they would not shift nearly so many papers without them.
Lucy Foley
#88. Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today's work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
Abraham Lincoln
#90. Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.
Michael Swanwick
#91. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
Adriano Bulla
#92. "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
Alfred North Whitehead
#93. When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
Josh Pais
#94. Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don't shift focus.
Bayode Ojo
#95. Pretty sure. When we reached the car earlier, all I could think of was: Key. Ignition. Stick shift. Wheel. And then: No. Dragos
Thea Harrison
#96. onto the fabric of her shift; I reached out one-handed and tweaked the cloth up to cover her. She put a hand over her breast and pressed hard to stop the milk. "What does he mean to do, though? If he finds him.
Diana Gabaldon
#97. You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.
Joe Teti
#98. It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.
Cheryl Richardson
#99. More ubiquitous mobile technologies have led to a significant shift from desktops and laptops to the use of mobile tablets. Australian schools are increasingly using apps as they become available to support education.
Susan Mann
#100. The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.
Gary Chapman
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