Transformation Quotes
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Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.
Pico Iyer -
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!
Bernard-Henri Levy -
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
Marianne Williamson -
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
George Eliot -
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
Lewis H. Lapham -
The universe is transformation.
Louise Erdrich
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The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.
Hannah Arendt -
probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that
J. D. Salinger -
Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.
Ali Babacan -
A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
Dalai Lama -
I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational.
Holly Hunter
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Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.
Jillian Michaels -
'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.
Marilyn Ferguson -
Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.
Marshall McLuhan -
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
Atul Gawande -
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
Yasmin Mogahed -
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
Cory Booker
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You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.
Jeff Weiner -
The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.
Andy Serkis -
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem.. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.
Ken Wilber -
Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.
Eve Curie