Top 100 Turning Point Quotes
#1. The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Bobby Fischer
#2. How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
Corrie Ten Boom
#3. I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a change. I cut out white flour and starches and worked with my doctor and a nutritionist to develop a plan.
Adam Richman
#4. Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality"
and of a "spiritual" nurture
that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.
Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
#5. Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
Herb Alpert
#6. A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
Terence McKenna
#8. Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
J. Gresham Machen
#9. When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.
John De Ruiter
#10. I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
Michael Ignatieff
#11. If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
James Taylor
#12. An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
Bipasha Basu
#13. I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
Jerry Saltz
#14. The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#15. I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
Chris Van Allsburg
#16. And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know ceases to exist. A moment that transform us into a different person from one heartbeat to the next.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#17. The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point.
Jean Baudrillard
#18. Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.
Douglas Brinkley
#19. It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
Thomas L. Friedman
#20. 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
M. C. Gainey
#21. Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
Shania Twain
#23. We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.
George W. Bush
#24. The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
Henri De Lubac
#25. We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself.
David Starkey
#26. The Goldsworth castle became particularly solitary after that turning point at dusk which resembles so much the nightfall of the mind. Stealthy
Vladimir Nabokov
#27. The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
Bianca Jagger
#28. In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#29. That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
George Saunders
#30. We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger. I remember that moment with crystal clarity and I comprehend it as a turning point in my life: a moment terrible in its illumination of a toad in my soul, an ugliness so pervasive that it seemed my insides were vomit.
Pat Conroy
#31. Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.
Tariq Al-Hashimi
#32. It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it's most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated.
Philipp Meyer
#33. Instead of deciding on a class and then figuring out its responsibilities, you are now deciding on a message and figuring out where to send it. This transition from class-based design to message-based design is a turning point in your design career.
Sandi Metz
#34. The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.
Louis O. Kelso
#35. The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.
Tim Blixseth
#36. We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon
#37. Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize
while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!
Pamela Anderson
#38. Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up.
Fred DeLuca
#39. The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.
Kingoro Hashimoto
#40. There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.
Deniz Gamze Erguven
#41. Some events in the life of a person, or a company, or a business, or even a country prove turning point.
Girdhar Joshi
#42. Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
Cliff Stearns
#43. In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.
Julia Quinn
#44. When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career.
Eric Ripert
#45. It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
Gwen Stefani
#46. My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.
Paulo Coelho
#47. This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
Ai Weiwei
#48. Crisis can go on to a critical point or turning point where deciding factors plays their games. It is a point to surrender or survive, stay alive or die. You can rise above the storm.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#49. The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's
Anita Shapira
#50. Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.
Rajneesh
#51. The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
James Rollins
#52. We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution has blindly felt its way forward , now, we, the product of evolution are taking the wheel. We soon will have the ability to design and create the new human, evolution still, but guided evolution ... of course, only on computer simulation.
Michael Grant
#53. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves." John
Napoleon Hill
#54. Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own. Romans 4:3
Eugene H. Peterson
#55. I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
Mark Haddon
#56. I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
Bobby Cox
#57. Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
Denis Waitley
#58. There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turning point you will use to label and count your years with... Your own BC and AD.
Malak El Halabi
#59. Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.
David Millar
#60. The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
Barton Gellman
#61. The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most of the time watching the play instead of playing the score! And that's when I knew I had it bad for acting.
John Cariani
#62. I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
Fran Drescher
#63. It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
Arto Lindsay
#64. When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
Sheryl WuDunn
#65. We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
Arthur C. Clarke
#66. You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
Keith Urban
#67. 'The Wire' is similar to 'The Walking Dead' in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning point of the story.
Seth Gilliam
#68. With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
Jon Meacham
#69. 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
Victor Salva
#70. All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.
John Burnside
#71. I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim Carrey
#72. Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".
Napoleon Hill
#73. Every turning point in life has a significant moment that accompanies it. It changes relationships, feelings and perspectives, altering the way you see the world around you.
Emma Hart
#74. Unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
Saul Bellow
#75. Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
Ferdinand Mount
#76. Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road ...
Green Day
#77. To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.
Joel Edgerton
#78. Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point
a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest
our best for His glory.
Oswald Chambers
#79. To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
Arto Lindsay
#80. Only later-looking back through the years-do we come to realise those ordinary choices are often the critical turning point in our destiny.
Judy Croome
#81. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
David Nicholls
#82. I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
Lisa Leslie
#83. I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.
Nicole Ari Parker
#84. Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.
Tarkan
#85. The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
Warren Christopher
#86. Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
Billy Evans
#87. The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.
Napoleon Hill
#88. I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.
Fred Ikle
#89. Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.
Abram Gitspof
#90. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking;
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.
Mavis Gallant
#92. We are at a turning point; the exploitation has now reached a pitch where the disenfranchised and exploited can look to a culpable minority with vengeful eyes. This minority, though, cannot be defined by the color of their skin but by the color of their god. Green.
Russell Brand
#93. Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point ... The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)
Patrick Kavanagh
#94. When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
Oswald Spengler
#95. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#96. When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months.
Paul Oakenfold
#97. I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
Marla Maples
#98. If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
David Suzuki
#99. I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.
Brian Cowen
#100. The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.
Jeffrey Skilling
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