Transformation Quotes

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. (Ernst Mayr)
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. View quote
Barack Obama
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death. View quote
Germaine Greer
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. View quote
Kerry Washington
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. View quote
Joseph Campbell
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. View quote
Napoleon Hill
It is all well and good to copy what one sees, but it is much better to draw only what remains in one's memory. This is a transformation in which imagination and memory collaborate. View quote
Edgar Degas
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana
The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of. (David Wilcock)
All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things. View quote
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people. View quote
Michael W. Smith
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. View quote
Sean Lennon
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands. View quote
William O. Douglas
The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete. (Stephen Jay Gould)
All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. View quote
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
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. View quote
Ian McEwan
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. View quote
William Irwin Thompson