Transform Quotes
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I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
Edith Grossman -
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
Bill Gates
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Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
Sarah Palin -
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
Adeline Yen Mah -
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
Ming-Na Wen -
You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.
Bill Gates -
I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
Charlize Theron
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It is very important to transform every disadvantage into an advantage.
Radhika Apte -
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
Christiana Figueres -
While the Passover narrative in Exodus energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.
Walter Brueggemann -
The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges -
We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
Elizabeth Kucinich -
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
Alan Hirsch
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My passion is to create and transform a small or a large space.
Gauri Khan -
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
Victor Hugo -
To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both.
Bernard Kouchner -
I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
Everett McGill -
All I know is that the Internet will transform the world.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -
To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice, and the rays of the sun itself at levels of efficiency that will transform our relationship to our own planet Earth.
Rick Tumlinson
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
Benjamin Carson -
In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.
Vivienne Westwood -
True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.
Bill Crawford -
I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.
Carrie Preston