Transition Quotes - Page 2

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

  Scott McCallum

  Cabinets, Administration, Plans

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• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  Laura Innes

  Gay, Intention, Come Up

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

  Victoria Pratt

  Made, I Can

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• Every market is in transition.

  Kenneth Lay

  Economy

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

  Georg Simmel

  Speak, Secrecy, Stadiums

  Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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• My dear, we live in an age of transition.

  William Ralph Inge

  Age, Dear

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Language

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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• We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

  Stjepan Mesic

  Country, Yugoslavia, Three

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• Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

  Mark Messier

  Captains, Easy, Wells

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

  Robert Kocharian

  Jobs, Government, Ungrateful

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• The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Clever, Government, Order

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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Decay

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Discovery, Unlikely, Cases

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• We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

  Alfred Kastler

  Light, Atoms, Rubies

  Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

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• The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

  Barack Obama

  God, Jobs, Father

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• We are the ones we've been waiting for.

  June Jordan

  Change, Life Changing, Yes We Can

  June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

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• In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Years, Firsts, Entertainment

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

  Derek Barton

  Requirements, States, Wells

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• Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War

  Mary Landrieu

  Wall, War, United States

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

  Marlee Matlin

  Meaningful, Trends, Seems

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• The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Views, Perspective

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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