Best Shifts Quotations
161 Shifts quotes by 145 unique authors
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The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that…
— Piers Corbyn
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I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we…
— James Daly
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High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as…
— Anthony Giddens
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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have…
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
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The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times,…
— Edward Frenkel
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Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at…
— Tara Brach
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When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness. Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in…
— Frederick Lenz
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Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any…
— Carroll Quigley
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America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission…
— Will Rogers
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Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through…
— Frederick Lenz
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An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.
— Frederick Lenz
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A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate…
— Sarah Lewis
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If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win.
— Sun Tzu
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With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of…
— Frederick Lenz
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Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place…
— George Friedman
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It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
— Al Gore
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The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
— Terry Eagleton
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Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone…
— Julius Erving
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All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's…
— Lupe Fiasco
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
— Carly Fiorina
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Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody…
— Joanne Harris
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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
— Val Kilmer
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When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school…
— James Patterson
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not…
— Salman Rushdie
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