Top 100 Quotes About Transforming
#1. Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#2. Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
Coretta Scott King
#3. Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.
Roger Zelazny
#4. Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
Soren Kierkegaard
#5. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
#6. The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.
Arun Manilal Gandhi
#7. Christianity is about taking broken people, transforming them, and then using those transformed people to transform the world.
Francis Chan
#8. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.
Rufus Jones
#9. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.
Ogwo David Emenike
#10. ... rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that
man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.
Giambattista Vico
#11. At incredible velocity and accelerating exponentially, the concentrated volume of quintessence escaped, transforming as it did so into a state known as phantom energy and following the artificial line of egress that had been provided.
Alan Dean Foster
#12. Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
Henry Louis Gates
#13. Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Arthur Erickson
#14. Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.
Deepak Chopra
#15. Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg
#16. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.
David Sedaris
#17. In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.
Li Shufu
#18. This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
Terence McKenna
#19. The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
Alice Munro
#20. Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.
M.F.K. Fisher
#21. The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness ... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.
Otto Scharmer
#22. And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
Charlize Theron
#23. Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Patti Smith
#24. These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
Alain De Botton
#25. Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.
Henry Seidel Canby
#26. Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
Dalia Mogahed
#27. I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?
H.J. Lawson
#28. The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.
Ellen Goodman
#30. Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.
Michael Emerson
#31. The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#32. The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.
Walter Rauschenbusch
#33. Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!
Michael Korda
#34. Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#35. O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.
Not by finishing, but by transforming to
infinite for infinite joy!
Debasish Mridha
#36. It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.
Dalai Lama
#37. We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
John Perry Barlow
#38. I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
#39. Any gospel which purports to save people without also transforming them is inviting easy-believism. If you think being a Christian is nothing more than saying a prayer or joining a church, then you've confused real grace with cheap grace. Those who are justified will be sanctified.
Kevin DeYoung
#40. The industry needs transforming. It's for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.
Lucian
#41. A Savvy Auntie knows that sisterhood and friendship are organic, transforming and growing as life goes on.
Anonymous
#42. For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.
Ken Wilber
#43. The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.
Dalai Lama
#44. Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.
Rajneesh
#45. Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.
Cesar Aira
#46. I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven.
Bre Pettis
#47. Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
#48. This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)
Eugene Taylor
#49. Oh, how we need to grasp the soul-settling hope found in the pages of God's Word--not only grasp it, but allow the hope of God to fill and overflow our hearts, transforming us into people who are confident and at peace with themselves, their God, and their circumstances.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#50. Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity
Michael Harris
#51. Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.
David Rockwell
#52. Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding - He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.
Alan Redpath
#53. While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified.
Alexander MacLaren
#54. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.
Paul David Tripp
#55. My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.
Charlize Theron
#56. Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others
Sunday Adelaja
#57. The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.
Fred Alan Wolf
#58. Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.
Joseph Estrada
#59. The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.
Russell Kirk
#60. Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it's operating in.
Fujio Mitarai
#61. When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.
B.A. Gabrielle
#62. People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley
#64. As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics
without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately
the movement will be undermined.
Bell Hooks
#65. Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].
Dada Bhagwan
#66. I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.
Deepak Chopra
#67. Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.
Simon Mainwaring
#68. She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.
A.S. Peterson
#69. What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.
Nick Flynn
#70. What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#71. To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward - revolutionary and transforming - and that requires extra factors that were not present before.
Belsebuub
#72. Plants are nature's alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture.
Michael Pollan
#73. Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
#74. I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.
Mark Buchanan
#75. The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute
#76. The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.
David Abram
#77. The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
Ludwig Von Mises
#78. I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
Barbara Kruger
#80. Nothing is everlasting, everything is transforming like a wave in the ocean.
Debasish Mridha
#81. If the truth has already transformed the teacher, then the truth has a far greater chance of transforming the students.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#82. Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.
Carol Muske-Dukes
#83. People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.
Michel De Montaigne
#84. For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
Hans Vestberg
#85. The Power of Self-Healing is your guide to transforming your brain and body in just 3 weeks. I have seen these principles literally change people's lives. I highly recommend it for you and your loved ones.
Daniel Amen
#86. Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
Tony Kushner
#87. She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.
Gayle Forman
#88. Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.
Terence Young
#89. Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged ecosystems is transforming and strengthening their relationship with the rest of nature.
William K. Stevens
#90. I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
Laura Lang
#91. Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.
Randy Siegel
#92. The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
Michelangelo
#93. Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.
Bernie Sanders
#94. We seldom notice how each day is a holy place Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens, Transforming our broken fragments Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.
John O'Donohue
#95. I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.
Kim Newman
#96. I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.
David Ayer
#97. We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.
Alice Miller
#98. Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#99. You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.
Anatoly Chubais
#100. Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.
Caroline Kennedy
