Top 42 William Bridges Quotes
#1. William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?
Johan Huizinga
#2. If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
William Throsby Bridges
#3. He wanted to be a man she admired. The way he admired her. He wanted her to think of him as brave. He wanted to be better because of her, and for her.
He was better because of her. She'd changed him irrevocably.
Julie Anne Long
#4. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
William Bridges
#5. I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.
William Monahan
#6. The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.
William Bridges
#7. The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.
William J. Clinton
#8. Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Throsby Bridges
#9. People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.
John Zorn
#10. Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.
William Bridges
#11. When we shut people out, we wall ourselves in;When we stop building bridges, we start erecting fences.
William Arthur Ward
#12. Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
William Throsby Bridges
#13. We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.
William Bridges
#14. Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
William Bridges
#15. All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning
William Bridges
#16. Blood before faction-no, love before faction, always.
Veronica Roth
#17. My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.
William J. Clinton
#18. Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges
#20. I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose;
it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting
far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes
reading poetry seem more natural.
William Empson
#21. There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it.
John Blanchard
#22. But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers - and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.
Muriel Siebert
#23. I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
William J. Clinton
#24. Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
William Arthur Ward
#25. Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
William J. Clinton
#27. Next time you see a brother down
Stop and pick him up,
Cause you might be the next one stuck.
Grand Puba
#29. And in the night sky, the soaring sopranos fly out over the city, guarding it with song, catching the souls of those rare, lovely heart-thinkers.
David Arnold
#30. Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.
William Bridges
#32. Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.
William Bridges
#33. He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
William Watson
#34. And while the other creatures on all fours Look downwards, man was made to hold his head Erect in majesty and see the sky, And raise his eyes to the bright stars above.
A.D. Melville
#35. It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.
William Bridges
#36. We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.
William J. Clinton
#37. Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#38. 'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.
Elizabeth Banks
#39. 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
#40. You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
Candace Bushnell
#42. It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.
William J. Clinton
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