Transition Quotes

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.

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

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.

Life is one big transition.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine, and use products that create a sun-kissed glow that can transition from day to night.

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.