Shift Happens Quotes

#1. Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Anne Lamott

#2. Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

Marc Andreessen

#3. The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Mark Batterson

#4. Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.

Ann Aguirre

#5. Work is what you have to do to pay rent. Life is what happens when your shift is over.

Marianne Kavanagh

#6. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don't understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he'll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last person alive, he'd say we needed the apocalypse and declare victory. It's what he is.

James S.A. Corey

#7. Many people find that they frequently slip into negative, unproductive moods, and, once in these moods, it can be difficult to shift out of them. We suggest that this happens because most people have an interpretation of mood and emotion that limits their power to observe and change their moods.

Fernando Flores

#8. The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

Henry Spencer

#9. I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

Deb Caletti

#10. The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

S.A. Tawks

#12. When a member of the family leaves or dies, it changes the dynamics of a family. People move and shift, take up places they either wanted to have or are forced into roles they never wanted. It happens without anybody noticing, but it's shifting all the time.

Cecelia Ahern

#13. It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

Steve Jobs

#14. The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

Pat Condell

#15. What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

Ted Cruz

#16. Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

Kaley Cuoco

#18. Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

Mike Johanns

#19. When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.

MC Yogi

#20. Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

Robin S. Sharma

#21. The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#22. Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.

Frank Natale

#23. You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

Janet Montgomery

#24. When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#25. 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