William Bridges Quotes

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

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Thinking
  • First
  • Kiss

• Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Way

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Take
  • Punishment
  • Sport

• God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • God
  • Broken
  • Employees

• More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.

  

  Sam Reed
  • States
  • Miss
  • Voting-equipment

• People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Goal

• There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Doubt

• At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Thinking
  • Inspiration
  • Angst

• We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Games
  • Video
  • Times Are Changing

• Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Perfect
  • Fitness
  • Score

• Love is very similar to torture or a surgical operation. Even if the two lovers are very much in love and culminating in mutual desires, one of the two will always be fuller than the other. This one is the operator, the butcher; the other, subjected, the victim.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Love
  • Lovers
  • Desires

• What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Authority
  • Americans
  • Virtues

• Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

  

  Derek Harold Richard Barton
  • Transition
  • Requirement
  • Preferred

• All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

  

  William Bridges
  • Transition
  • Zone
  • Beginnings