Transition Quotations

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

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.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. Ive made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

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

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

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

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.

I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

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.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps.

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

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

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.

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre because it's taped in front of a live audience.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

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.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

I've 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.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

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

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isnt something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

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

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

Now we've got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy. Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future - especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels. That's why I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

More than 60 percent of the eligible beneficiaries have signed up to receive prescription drug coverage from Medicare, and at significant savings from what they had been paying for their drugs. In the past month alone, about 380,000 Americans signed up each week. Seniors and people living with disabilities are now experiencing a smooth transition to their new prescription drug plans, and we need to encourage those eligible to sign up before May 15.

I was going to try to play him a little bit to see how he looked out there. It's just hard in transition for him. ... He gave a great effort. He missed some shots but he was aggressive.

One thing Jimmie does do is help our defense. He usually gets a steal, here or there, and helps get our transition game going. He's always a capable scorer. He can reel off three, five or seven points in a row. Hopefully, we'll get him back to full strength real soon.

My sense is that her identity has been so associated with the morning news format that it will be difficult for her to make that transition and have the same kind of dominance that she enjoys in the morning.

My sense is that we may be at a really important transition point. Yesterday was a pretty important day. (The market) turned around on expanding volume, which indicated some real buying going on.

One of the reasons why we brought her in was we felt like she complimented Robin very well and her ability to run the floor and transition was a huge asset.

On none of the previous occasions where there has been a transition of leadership has it been so prolonged.

I would expect when the new features come out, it will generate an acceleration in the company's growth. And while the product transition is a least a quarter out before it gets meaningful, I still think it's a good buy at this level.

Nick is getting better as he gets more games under his belt. We continue to see his improvement at both ends of the court in the transition game. He's becoming a bigger part of our team.

Manhattan Associates' solutions have enabled us to transition our distribution operation from a warehouse that stored $4 million of goods to a true distribution center that manages just over $1 million of goods at any given time. Our products are now where they should be--within reach of our customers.

Some aspects are easy to quantify, some are not. What I can't quantify is the impact of the wireless transition on our sales due to fact that we have less inventory and less active promotional activity.

One thing that hurt us tonight was our transition defense. They were playing a small lineup and we didn't recognize that they were coming down and looking for the 3-point line. If you're not ready to get back in transition, it's going to be a long night. We saw the best of Phoenix tonight.

One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily.

One thing that's been nice is that somebody different usually steps up every night. I didn't really change a whole lot so the transition was pretty easy for the girls.

My goal is to have a transition period.

Monday Night Football' is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It's a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an honor.

Monday Night Football is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It's a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an honor.

Morales is an untried political leader. He's certainly someone who can command the street. Now, can he make the transition from an agitator to an executive?

People who are making the transition from renters to owners will find it the biggest hurdle.

No, I am not burned out, ... I have tremendous passion for the game. I have tremendous dedication to the game. I believe that I will find myself in a position of leadership with an organization again in the future, but I have no immediate plans. My goal for the rest of this week is to help the organization with the transition and to help the baseball operations staff that I care so much about get ready for the general managers meetings.

Nothing is going to just stop ... The Lower Woodward Program was really about more than the Super Bowl. It was about the transition of the city of Detroit into something we can all be proud of, to make it more livable and enjoyable and an exciting place to be.

needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people.

Now, we are such a young team, it really helped to see the leaders last year. We have to lead by example in our training. We have to work that much harder. I'd say that I'm a vocal leader. It's a whole new atmosphere for the freshmen, and the transition can be difficult. It can almost be a maternal role, too.

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Rice has as good an offensive player as their is in the league. They start with him and that's important. Transition defense will be very important. They are a very good transition team. And defensively, they are doing a lot of different things.