Quotes about Transition
It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.
- Edith Wharton
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
- Edith Wharton
She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.
- Edith Wharton
seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He
- Edith Wharton
seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He
- Edith Wharton
Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.
- Edith Wharton
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.
- Edmund Burke
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them
- Albert Einstein
When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.
- Jennifer Aniston
There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
- Patrick Lencioni
My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.
- Juan Mata