#transform

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#arrive #being #genius #into #talent

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. ↗

— William Allen White

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. ↗

— Vash Young

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I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those inner parts of yourself, without damaging the psyche, that determines whether the beauty is experienced and expressed and shared with others or, in fact, becomes the death of the self and Soul and psyche. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#hardest #learning #practice #training #transformation

..[My friend Marco said]. essentially, humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then plod through a long middle in which they are compelled to search for a mate and reproduce and also create stability out of natural instability and then they find themselves at an ending tha seems to be designed for reflection. At the end, their bodies are slower, they are not as easily distracted, they do less work, and they think and feel about a life lived rather than look forward to a life getting started. He didn't know what the point of the journey was, but he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates. ...[I wondered] that we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us. The point of a story is the character arc, the change. ↗

— Donald Miller

#transformation #change

Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world. ↗

— Ericka Huggins

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