Top 96 Quotes About Transformations: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Transformations

#1. Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.

#2. The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.

Thurgood Marshall

#3. Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.

Jean-Marie Lehn

#4. One thing you should remember is that mental transformations take time and are not easy. I think some people from the West, where technology is so good, think that everything is automatic.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.

Paulo Coelho

#6. We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen.

Glen Duncan

#7. The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.

William Thompson

#8. To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires ... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

Michael Snow

#9. Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a crisis.

C. G. Jung

#10. The theatre is a machine of transformations: everything is transformed into another thing; a bald man has thick hair on his head; a man with strong legs gains a limp and a sharp-eyed person becomes blind; an actor who is an atheist immediately turns into the most pious priest on earth! ~

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals:

Chip Heath

#12. Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.

Millard Fuller

#13. If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#14. We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

Zhuangzi

#15. It was a night replaying its corrosive recurrence on the road of our lives, on the road which was hungry for great transformations.

Ben Okri

#16. I married John Paul because I'm knocked out by his style. Because I love him and respect him and enjoy the transformations that take place as a result of our sharing the same dimensions.

Tom Robbins

#17. In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions ... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity."

Erasmus Darwin

#18. But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum.

Hermann Weyl

#20. 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

#21. Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Nhat Hanh

#22. the more successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals: 89 percent of the top third versus only 33 percent of the bottom third. For instance, a behavioral goal might be that project teams would meet once a week

Chip Heath

#23. I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Anais Nin

#24. Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.

Jennifer Birkett

#25. The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

Charles Fort

#26. I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

Dale Carnegie

#27. We firmly oppose the use of violence in the course of current transformations in Arab States, especially against civilians. We are well aware of the fact that the transformation of a society is a complex and generally long process, which rarely goes smoothly.

Sergei Lavrov

#28. There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

Philip K. Dick

#29. I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked.

Sarah Dessen

#30. I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

L. Frank Baum

#31. Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

Paulo Coelho

#32. I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

Rachel Zucker

#33. What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.

Margaret Atwood

#34. Eumenes had been with her more than 400 years, Lollia nearly as long. Until now not one of her transformations had failed to last 200 years. Was she getting worse at it, or was the strength of the human stock in decline?

Whitley Strieber

#35. My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

Honor Harger

#36. If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

Marshall McLuhan

#37. second conclusion is that the transformations brought about by digital technology will be profoundly beneficial ones.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#38. Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us.

Suzy Kassem

#39. Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

Suzy Kassem

#40. It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

David Walliams

#41. This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Asa Gray

#42. The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

Salman Rushdie

#43. We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

Joe Viterelli

#44. 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

#45. That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.

Pope Benedict XVI

#46. We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands of millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint ... a symphony ... but we lack the ears to hear it.

Stanislaw Lem

#47. Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.

James C. Collins

#48. i think about how - if I want to welcome the inevitable transformations of my life - I'm going to have to fully open myself to spirit-speak, to a seemingly cheesy-Earth-Momma vulnerability. I'm going to have to cede control - not just mentally or physically but also spiritually.

Leigh Ann Henion

#49. Inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation.

Stephen Batchelor

#50. Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Clara Shih

#51. A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Paul Valery

#52. Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

Joe Viterelli

#53. 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

#54. Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations - cloud, multiscreen and social computing - which are all happening at the same time.

Kevin Lynch

#55. My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Madonna Ciccone

#56. 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

#57. The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.
[Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862]

Rudolf Clausius

#58. I wanted to prepare for a life of sudden transformations, of enemies singing at you across the stage dressed in the costume of a lover.

Alexander Chee

#59. Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process.

Lee Johnson

#60. Grizzled old bastard like him don't go providing death-bed transformations.

Sebastian Barry

#61. DAGAZ - new beginnings, transformations

Rick Riordan

#62. The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.

Serge Lang

#63. Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Jean Piaget

#64. I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Anthony Kiedis

#65. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

#66. I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people - who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves - would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.

Julia Serano

#67. There are no separations - only connections. There are no deaths - only transformations.

Debasish Mridha

#68. ...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh.

William Boyd

#69. Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#70. Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#71. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

C. G. Jung

#72. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

Kenneth Branagh

#73. And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#74. Since Idi Amin was from the Sudanese section in the north of Uganda, he was darker skinned. He had more of a blue undertone. So, we did change the coloring of my skin to be closer to his. But otherwise, there were no transformations besides acting.

Forest Whitaker

#75. Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

Anne Waldman

#76. Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Alexandra Roach

#77. For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

#78. Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#79. The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

Francisco Varela

#80. We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

John P. Kotter

#81. The function of writing is to explode one's subject - transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations).

Susan Sontag

#82. One of the inherent challenges with initiatives such as DevOps transformations is that they are inevitably in conflict with ongoing business operations. Part

Gene Kim

#83. The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

Angela Merkel

#84. Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

Andre Kertesz

#85. The executives who ignited the transformations from good to great did not first figure out where to drive the bus and then get people to take it there. No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it.

James C. Collins

#86. Success is a journey of transformations.

Vishwas Chavan

#87. If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Marcus Aurelius

#88. Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.

Edward Thomson

#89. It [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and slow process of pain, and the transformations and transmutations of grief, like rot in the earth-mould, like roots and other blind things moving in the grave.

A.S. Byatt

#90. I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

Angela Davis

#91. My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

Stephen Jay Gould