Transition Quotes - Page 27

• I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Hands, President

  Hearing by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Country, Thinking, Long

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• The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

  Seth Gabel

  Character, Boys, Men

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• I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Trying, Dresses, Littles

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• I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Government, Dna, Awkward

  "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview with Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

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• After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

  Karen Mills

  Years, President, Four

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• We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Dirty, Past

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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• Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Teaching, Thinking, Class

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• Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools.

  Tom Vilsack

  School, Economy, Transforming

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• My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, Sputnik

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• Ive been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Fashion, Careers, Years

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• If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

  Terence McKenna

  Taken, Historical, Needs

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• When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Average, Order

  T. D. Jakes (2014). “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

  Pedro Pierluisi

  Two, Divergent, Path

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• I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Egypt, Democracy, Tunisia

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• Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

  Bill Drayton

  Successful, Organization, Working Together

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• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  Irwin Redlener

  War, Mind, Would Be

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• Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

  Maria Popova

  Journey, Love Is, Leaving

  "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

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• Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Dream, Writing, Order

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• Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Home, Technology

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• How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?

  Milton Friedman

  Oil, Agency, Government

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• The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

  Christiana Figueres

  Business, Weather, Records Breaking

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• My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

  Graham Phillips

  Character, Long, Wife

  "Graham Phillips Talks GOATS, the Long Road to Development for the Film, Growing Up on THE GOOD WIFE and His Desire to Write and Direct". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2012.

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