Transform Quotes
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The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
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You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
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The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality.
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A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
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When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.
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For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.
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By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.
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Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
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There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
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Architects don’t invent anything; they transform reality.
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It's rare that a company has an opportunity to forever transform the ways in which people interact with the world and communicate with each other, but that is exactly what we plan to do with Valve.
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I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
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As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
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But if one decides to start with Descartes and finish with Aristotle, and to employ an idealist method while shamelessly making use of a reality one has no right to, one brings confusion into the heart of philosophy and makes its cultivation impossible. To make it possible again is the reason why realists are realists and call themselves such. They too follow a method, but they do not lay down beforehand what that method is to be, as though it were a necessary pre-condition for their philosophy. Instead, they find their method in their philosophy. So they never have to ask themselves whether it is legitimate to transform their method into a metaphysics, because their method is that metaphysics, which is fully aware of its proceedings, of its initial positions, and of their implications.
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Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.
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College grads are an endlessly naive bunch who believe that suffering will transform them into the kind of well-rounded human beings their suburban upbringings failed to make them.
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You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
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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.
