Transformation Quotations

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

The Gospel of transformation is from men and women of earth to men and women of eternities.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

I'm passionate about transformation.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.

Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

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.

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

The universe is transformation.

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that

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.

There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.