Quotes About Transitions

#1. This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.

Terry Tempest Williams

#2. Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

Dan Miller

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

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

#4. Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

Kenneth Clark

#5. What is a goal, without a vison?
Who is a woman without a mission?
What is life without decisions?
Why live if not for transitions?

Renee' A. Lee

#6. Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.

Julia Kent

#7. Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

Laozi

#9. As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#10. When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.

Maya Tiwari

#11. At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions ... all good things.

Peter Diamandis

#12. I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

Brandon Boyd

#13. The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.

William James

#14. I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.

Gordon Willis

#15. Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

Neal Stephenson

#16. The natives believed in the circle of life which consisted of three main functions or transitions in life, the birth, death and rebirth.

Sally May

#17. I love that blurry place where life's transitions are made without you even knowing it.

Ann Brashares

#18. It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.

Edith Wharton

#19. The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

Alan J. Heeger

#20. God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But that means there must be at least a certain amount of dissonance. Without dissonance, there is no need of belief, and without belief there surely is no God.

Neil Abramson

#21. I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

Noah Baumbach

#22. Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

Heinrich Heine

#23. When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually went. Often, however, that isn't so. There are many facts about human life in the Paleolithic we're never likely to know.

Philip Kitcher

#24. Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

Pete Du Pont

#25. My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

#26. Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Janet Evanovich

#27. Every believer departing this old earth ... immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself.

Paul P. Enns

#28. during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

Moises Naim

#29. Learn from the mistakes, and beware of the transitions.

Matthew S. Williams

#30. In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Bing Gordon

#31. I really think that the 'Jersey Boys' musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because it's a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.

Vincent Piazza

#32. All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

William Bridges

#33. The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Bill Crawford

#34. From birth,....... I've been on a mission now it's time to enjoy the transitions

Renee' A. Lee

#35. I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.

Paul Newman

#36. The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Gustav Mahler

#37. I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally easy film to follow. You have to know that the paparazzo looks like Mark David Chapman. He hasn't got an expositional sign on him.

William Monahan

#38. But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Timothy Garton Ash

#39. in a hypermedia-based design, resources don't matter as much. The designer's job is to identify all the state transitions.

Leonard Richardson

#40. When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint ... were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

James Agee

#41. Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

David M. Raup

#42. I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

#43. My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

Graham Phillips

#44. Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#45. I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.

Aaron Funk

#46. There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Marya Hornbacher

#47. To have attained to the human form is a source of joy ... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

Zhuangzi

#48. If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

Jack Hyles

#49. Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

Gordon T. Smith

#50. Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Fred Rogers

#51. Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.

Steven M. Stanley

#52. All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#53. I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

Gillian Flynn

#54. In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.

Janet Rebhan

#55. The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!

John F. Carlson

#56. But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality

Alfred North Whitehead

#57. It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#58. The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Richard V. Allen

#59. I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.

David Rockwell

#60. Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

Kathryn Joosten

#61. Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!

Jim George

#62. Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended to move the softer passions, the notes imperceptibly melt into one another.

Joshua Reynolds

#63. The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews.

Greg James

#64. In dealing with emotional upheavals triggered by transitions and change, I have learned that the best place to start is to take my emotions to God.

Ngina Otiende

#65. Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

George Will

#66. In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

Reggie Watts

#67. Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Alan Dundes

#68. They do not understand that that I have to effect different transitions; have to cover the entrances and exits of several different men who alternately act their parts as Bernard.

Virginia Woolf

#69. Wilted or in bloom,
taking or lending daylight,
the world transitions.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#70. A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

Franklyn Ajaye

#71. Transitions from clientelism have often involved leaders from different parties colluding against the entire class of brokers.

Susan C. Stokes

#72. I basically use the sketch step to turn the beats (the "tell") into a draft (the "show"), and then to make notes about anything that's not yet fully formed in my mind, but that I know will eventually need to be in the draft (i.e. transitions).

Monica Leonelle

#73. Parishes that have learned to develop a culture of continual invitation to leadership, training, and growth in responsibility for their members are predisposed to ongoing health and growth when pastor transitions occur

William E. Simon Jr.

#74. The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould

#75. Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

John Medina

#76. Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth ... transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

William Bridges

#77. One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today.

R. Alan Woods

#78. I am going through transformation. I enjoy the different transitions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#80. In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Satya Nadella

#81. U.S. wrestling is more of a scrambling style where guys take a lot of risks. You could watch a match in the states and see a score of 18-12. There is going to be a lot of action, transitions and guys going back and forth and trading points.

Gilbert Melendez

#82. Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Rick Warren

#83. If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

Franklyn Ajaye

#84. I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

Richard Armitage

#85. The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late.

Jim Bouton

#86. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#87. Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.

Jesikah Sundin

#88. Life is a transition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.

Alyscia Cunningham

#90. Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.

Shae Ross

#91. Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#92. Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman's face.

Alyscia Cunningham

#93. He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. 'What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?

Jesikah Sundin

#94. Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.

Jeff Manion

#95. How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic.

Jesikah Sundin

#96. He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.

Helene Wecker

#97. The new is always at our doorstep when we feel most lost.

Janet Rebhan

#98. I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#99. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.

Shannon L. Alder

#100. Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools.

Jesikah Sundin