Transition Quotes - Page 7

• All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

  William Bridges

  New Beginnings, Zone

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• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  Ike Skelton

  Iran, Korea, Years

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• Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

  William Bridges

  Keys, Self, Growth

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• 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.

  Timothy Geithner

  Giving, Doe, Recognition

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• Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stress, Two, Point Break

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• The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Gestalt, Steps, Logic

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• I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain moment in life there is no limit. I would like my photography to pose a question rather than make a precise statement.

  Lise Sarfati

  Photography, Immaturity, Vets

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• Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Sleep, Mobile, Loses

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• We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Jobs, Home, Mean

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• If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Movement, Fancy, Flight

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• A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Technique, Routine, Phrases

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

  Fernando Torres

  Fun, Love You, Kids

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Lying, Men

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• [on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.

  Ed Asner

  Drama, Cameras, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition to 21st century clean, renewable energy?

  Elizabeth Warren

  Dirty, Past, Simple

  "Energy & The Environment". elizabethwarren.com.

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• The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Pain, Waiting, Shapes

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("Z'ha'dum", 1996), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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

  Laverne Cox

  Real, People, Preoccupation

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• The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.

  Thomas Attig

  Letting Go, Grief, Heart

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• Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.

  Anne Geddes

  Children, Eye, Lucky

  Anne Geddes (2006). “Down in the Garden”, p.14, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, People, Introducing

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• It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.

  Leopold Infeld

  Sunday, Life And Death, Would Be

  Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously.

  Ice Cube

  Blessing, Thinking, Rapper

  "Ice Cube: The ‘Are We There Yet?’". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 2, 2010.

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• To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

  Queen Latifah

  Practice, Training, Acting

  "Joy to the Queen!-Queen Latifah. The "Joyful Noise" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• During these unstable times, let go of any fear or insecurity in your emotions. Look for new ways that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Believe in yourself and your ability to create new streams of income. Rather than continuing in a season of fear, let this be a time to transition into a season of creative success!

  Barbara Wentroble

  Letting Go, Believe, Effort

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

  Aaron Carter

  Trying, Different, Saws

  "Aaron Carter's 18th birthday plans include working with pharrell" by Brandee J. Tecson, www.mtv.com. September 13, 2005.

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