William Bridges Quotes
All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning
William Bridges
Quotes to Explore
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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
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More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.
Sam Reed
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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
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Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
Brian Tracy
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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
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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
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We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.
Dahlia Lithwick
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Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
Drew Carey
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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
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.
Elena Ferrante
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
Natalie Cole