Transformation Quotes - Page 27

• History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, History, Anecdotes

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Science, Animal

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• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Support, Religion

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• Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.

  Henry Taube

  Exercise, Science, Intellectual

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• With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Teacher, Technology, Leader

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• Remember that transformation is a present activity.

  Jillian Michaels

  Remember, Activity

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• Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

  John F. Kerry

  Organization, Political, Agendas

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• Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Loyalty, Inspiration

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• Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

  Julian Barnes

  Selfish, Good Love, Writing

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• A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing unfreedom and the rebelling forces, thus breaking through the mystified (and petrified) social reality, and opening the horizon of change (liberation).

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Fate, Reality

  Herbert Marcuse (2007). “Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.62, Routledge

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• True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strategy

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• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Media, Personality, United States

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• Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.

  Charles Hodge

  Character, Grace, Spirit

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.522

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• What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.

  Glenn Beck

  Feelings, Body, Transcendence

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• If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.”  You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking.  Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Military, Moving, Reality

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• Growth follows knowledge;
  action follows inspiration;
  opportunity follows perception;
  always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite
  and illimitable possibilities of achievement.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.51, Charles F. Haanel

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• Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Break Through, Way, Kind

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• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  Daniel Libeskind

  Mistake, Believe, Ideas

  Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Way, Election, Imagine

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• Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

  Marc Andreessen

  Health, Views, Fundamentals

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• One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

  William O. Douglas

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Men

  William O. Douglas' speech at annual dinner of Fordham University Alumni Association in New York City, February 9, 1939.

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• We've seen the transformation of America, when at the pinnacle of its Christianity was probably in the 1950s. Ever since then it has been declining, why? Because of the sexual revolution. Where did the sexual revolution come from? The sexual revolution came from the activists of the American gay movement.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, America, Revolution

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• Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.

  Walter J. Ong

  Writing, Science, Thinking

  Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge

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