Shifting Quotes

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.

No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

Tell me where you want it,” I said. Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. “You’re asking me?” “Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.