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Letter "T" » transitions
«Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
peaceful, pleasant, transition, transitions, troublesome
«When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.»
Author: William Bridges
| Keywords:
disappointment, disenchantment, minor, shock, signal, signaling, transition, transitions
«We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| Keywords:
abandon, American values, commitments, era, generations, honored, luxuries, necessities, proven, salt, tempted, this century, time-honored, transition, transitions, uneasy
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
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«When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
gold medal, gold medals, I Tried, medals, transition, transitions
«History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
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«Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great»
«Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
energize, energized, energizes, energizing, secure, transition, transitions
«The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
biography, continuity, Go Between, jolt, jolted, marries, maximum, minimum, revolutions, smoother, time and space, transitions, untouched
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