Transition Quotes - Page 5

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.

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

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

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

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.