Transformation Quotes:

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Social Responsibility: Talks”, p.18, Krishnamurti Foundation America (PublishDrive)

topic: World, Transformation

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

topic: Spiritual, World, Transformation

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

topic: Events, Transformation, Future Events, Present Day

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

topic: Events, Transformation, Future Events

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

topic: Transformation, Remember

- Johann Most

topic: Want, Transformation, Improvement, Commonwealth

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

- John Paul Caponigro

topic: Art, Perception, 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.

- John Turturro

source: "John Turturro on 'La Tregua (The Truce)'". Interview with Richard Schwartz, www.filmscouts.com. 1997.

topic: Tone, Transformation, Quiet

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

- John von Neumann

topic: Might, Transformation, Mathematical

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

- John W. Snow

topic: President, Saving, Transformation

As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.

- Julia Hill

topic: Creative, Energy, Transformation, Activate

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.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

topic: Important, Sound, Transformation

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

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

topic: Musical, Important, Transformation, Musical Composition

Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.

- Katrina Kenison

source: Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.67, Hachette UK

topic: Growth, Who We Are, Transformation

We go through transformations when we are dealing with this world (spirit world). Go out and find whatever makes your spirit at peace.

- Kofi Awoonor

topic: World, Spirit, Transformation, Spirit World

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Art, Becoming, Transformation, Timelessness

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

- Marcelo Gleiser

source: Marcelo Gleiser (2010). “A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: May, Imbalance, Transformation, Symmetry

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Opinion, Transformation, Life Is

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

- Maria Montessori

topic: Growth, Size, Transformation

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Keys, Transformation, Miraculous

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

- Marilyn Ferguson

source: Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

topic: Journey, Finals, Transformation, Final Destination

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.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: People, Buckets, Transformation

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

- Mario Testino

source: "What do you give the girl who has everything? A session with Mario" by Daisy Garnett, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2007.

topic: Beautiful, Matter, Transformation

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

- Mark Strong

topic: Ideas, Acting, Transformation

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

- Martha Rosler

topic: Subjectivity, Transformation, Language, Food Production

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Powerful, Moral, Transformation, Kings Speech, Non Violence

The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.

- Mary Gauthier

topic: Pain, Grief, Transformation

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

- Matthieu Ricard

source: Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Way, Evolution, Transformation, Present Situation

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

- Merce Cunningham

source: Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). “The Dancer and the Dance”, Marion Boyars

topic: Dance, Thinking, Transformation

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

topic: Sound, Doxology, Transformation

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.

- Naomi Klein

topic: Zero, Rooms, Transformation, Profit Motive

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

- Natalie Wood

topic: Analysis, Transformation, Change Yourself

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.

- Natan Sharansky

topic: Iron, Generations, Transformation, Iron Curtain, Ussr

The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

- Neil T Anderson

source: Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

topic: Transformation, Progressive, Moments, Justification By Faith

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Past, Secret, Transformation

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

- Patrick deWitt

topic: Towns, Welcome, Transformation, Unpleasant Experiences

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

- Patton Oswalt

topic: Mcdonalds, People, Transformation, Hash

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

- Paul Eldridge

topic: Transformation, Silent, Footnotes

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.

- Paul Hawken

topic: Age, Information, Transformation, Information Age, Productions

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

- Paula Abdul

topic: Believe, Inner Beauty, Transformation

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

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

topic: Impact, Transformation, Provoking

- Peter Munk

topic: Taste, Transformation, Personal Taste

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Movement, Transformation, Committed

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

- Polly Toynbee

source: "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

topic: Pain, Transformation, Incapacity, Indignity

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

- Rahul Gandhi

topic: Way, Election, Transformation

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Unbearable, Transformation, Difficult

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

- Rainn Wilson

topic: Character, Theatre, Transformation

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

- Ralph Metzner

topic: Discovery, Firsts, Transformation

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

- Ralph Metzner

topic: Culture, Transformation, Consciousness

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

- Ram Dass

topic: Spiritual, Transformation, Realizing

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

- Raoul Vaneigem

topic: World, Upside Down, Transformation, World Upside Down

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

- Ray Kurzweil

topic: Brain, Computer, Transformation, Supercomputers, Personal Computers

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.

- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

topic: Essentials, Transformation, Social, Democratization

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

- Richard J. Foster

source: Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.10, Harper Collins

topic: Believe, Passion, Transformation

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

- Rudolf Clausius

topic: Law, Being Positive, Transformation, Thermodynamics

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.

- Sean Lennon

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Air, Transformation, Uncertain, Bleak, Precipice

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

- Shahzia Sikander

topic: Practice, Rebuilding, Transformation

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

- Shiv Khera

source: FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 11, 2016

topic: Mind, Information, Transformation, Empty Mind

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

- Starhawk

topic: Opportunity, Transformation, Ritual

...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation.

- Stephen Batchelor

topic: Spiritual, World, Transformation

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Self, People, Transformation

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

- Susanne Katherina Langer

topic: Magic, Language, Transformation

For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.

- Tenzin Palmo

topic: Practice, Mind, Transformation

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.

- Thomas Kuhn

source: Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

topic: Science, Anecdotes, Transformation, Chronology

Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!

- Tim Hughes

topic: Father, Spirit, Transformation, Worship Service, Worship Music

The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn't as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that TRANSFORMATION OF BEING, action will naturally follow.

- Tom Shadyac

source: "It’s Time to Shift Into Your Heart-Gear" by Carolyn Ziel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

topic: Action, Transformation, Deeper

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

- Toni Cade Bambara

topic: Writing, Way, Transformation

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

- Tullian Tchividjian

topic: People, Pressure, Transformation

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

- Tullian Tchividjian

topic: Transformation

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

- Van Jones

source: "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.

topic: Mistake, Saint, Transformation, Social Transformation

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

- Vivian Gornick

topic: Past, Being There, Transformation

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Coaching, Transformation, Things Happen, Personal Transformation

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom

- Warren Miller

topic: Pairs, Transformation, Skis

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

- Warwick Davis

topic: People, Transformation, Film

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

- Wentworth Miller

topic: Littles, Transformation, Distinction

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Fall, Transformation, Sometimes

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

- Zbigniew Herbert

source: Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr

topic: Writing, Transformation, Archaeology

The key figure in the Christian faith involves a story of suffering so that others do well. You're only going to get so much liberation, you're only going to get so much transformation, from a system that is based on suffering.

- Anthony B Pinn

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Christian, Suffering, Transformation

We're being asked to bring our humanness along in holding that love and compassion for ourselves as we make our way through this energetic time of transformation.

- Christine McCormick Day

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Compassion, Way, Transformation, Humanness

The Pleiadians said that at a certain moment in the future, when we go through our transformation, the Earth plane will shift back to its original pristine self.

- Christine McCormick Day

topic: Self, Earth, Transformation, Pristine

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

- Emmanuel Macron

topic: Book, Revolution, Transformation, Pension

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

- Halford Luccock

source: "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

topic: Tasks, Transformation, Intense

Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: Different, Transformation, Love Myself

When we're talking about the transformation, we can add in the 25 pounds I've gained - I've been eating my way through the wireless industry.

- John J. Legere

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Transformation, Eating, My Way

Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and they don't deeply interest me. But that's the case in most cultures. We have our own Language Poetry, which doesn't interest me either.

- Jonathan W. Galassi

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Italian, Culture, Transformation

There's stable subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, electrons - and then there's unstable ones that decay into stable ones. One will become many. There's this constant process of transformation that underlies everything in the entire universe. They also make these beautiful marks through time. It's like the universe was drawing, essentially, at this fundamental level. There's always an alphabet that's based in natural patterns. Sometimes they're just by themselves, sometimes they build up these other things that relate to the conception, that are more at our level of existence.

- Kysa Johnson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Transformation, Sometimes

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

- Rebecca Horn

topic: Art, Transformation

I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I go through a transformation? Will I be bored or not? Is it a good or bad narrative experience?

- Saschka Unseld

topic: Bored, Narrative, Transformation

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

- Steven Harrison

topic: Lost Everything, Transformation, Understatement

For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future.

- Tehching Hsieh

topic: Thinking, Past, Transformation

I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

- Brad Willis

topic: Healing, Transformation, Inspired

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

- Abelardo Morell

topic: Important, Different, Transformation

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

- Becky Stark

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Powerful, Listening, Transformation

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

- David Adjaye

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Opportunity, Agency, Transformation

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Transformation, Reproduction

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

- I. L. Peretz

topic: Evolution, Transformation

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.

- Swanee Hunt

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, World, Transformation

Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.

- Yasuhiko Kimura

source: Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com

topic: People, Transformation, Environment

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

- Julie Bishop

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Entering, Care, Transformation

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.

- Pat Buchanan

source: "Pat Buchanan On Why He Shares Trump's Ideas On Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 5, 2016.

topic: Borders, Minorities, Transformation

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.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Progress, World, Transformation

Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Victory, Pilots, Transformation

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Self, Growth, Transformation

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

- Stephen Covey

topic: Honor, Transformation, Mood

Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more efficiently, where in this moment of deep transformation, it is much more likely that you should be doing something entirely new in an entirely different way.

- Paul Saffo

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Technology, Different, Transformation

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

- Paul Valery

topic: Failure, Succeed, Transformation

Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

topic: Magnificence, Transformation, Moments

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

topic: Self Improvement, Transformation

Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

topic: Helping, Transformation, Mystery

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

topic: Dream, Effort, Transformation

- Jennifer Egan

source: Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.14, Anchor

topic: Worry, Redemption, Transformation

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

- Paulo Freire

topic: People, Transformation, Painful

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Giving, Suffering, Transformation

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.

- Paulo Freire

source: Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Essentials, Roles, Transformation

The universe is transformation.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Transformation, Universe

There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.

- Peter Drucker

source: "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

topic: Transformation

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Politics, Transformation, Mankind, Cattle

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

topic: Opposites, Transformation, Nonsense

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

- Peter Kreeft

topic: Prayer, Heart, Transformation

Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation.

- Fritjof Capra

source: Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.282, Shambhala Publications

topic: Mean, Way, 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.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Steps, Transformation, Socialism, Interventionism

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (1954). “The First and Last Freedom”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

topic: Love, Revolution, Transformation

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.38, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Revolution, Tomorrow, Transformation

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

topic: Helping, Transformation, Influence

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.102, Macmillan

topic: Transformation, Minutes, Interest

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