Transform Quotes - page 3

It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity – by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal – has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own. (Muhammad Iqbal)
The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons. View quote
Subcomandante Marcos
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
One can transform a place by reading in it. View quote
Alberto Manguel
By necrophilia is meant love for all that is violence and destruction; the desire to kill; the worship of force; attraction to death, to suicide, to sadism; the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic by means of "order." The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy because for him it serves only one quality: force. View quote
Erich Fromm
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
When speaking of a "body of knowledge” or of "the results of research,” e. g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge. View quote
Leo Strauss
Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation. (Paul A. Baran)
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. View quote
Mario Benedetti
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. View quote
Mohsin Hamid
we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them. View quote
Rafe Martin
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families. View quote
Philip Yancey
She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?” "No,” I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple. View quote
Holly Black
Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large. View quote
Shari Arison
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. View quote
Irving Wallace
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture. ... We have language, the primary medium of culture... In a few short millennia - a mere instant in biological time - we have already used our new exploration vehicles to transform not only our planet but the very process of design development that created us. (Daniel Dennett)
She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her. View quote
David Levithan
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself. View quote
Natalie Wood
A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you. View quote
Ishmael Beah
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be. View quote
Frances McDormand