Top 342 Shift Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Shift Quotes from famous people such as Wayne Dyer, Jane McGonigal, Ayesha Takia, Rick Renzi, Alexander De Croo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and beg

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.
Wayne Dyer
‘SuperBetter’ is fundamentally about a mind shift. It’s about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.
Jane McGonigal
It does get difficult to shift from a ‘Wanted’ to a ‘Mod.’
Ayesha Takia
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
Rick Renzi
The progressive integration of new technologies in our economy amounts to a paradigm shift with a profound impact on the context and content of work.
Alexander De Croo
As tastes shift around the globe and there are more roles for women, there are more women who can participate. Salaries will go up and be commensurate.
Donna Langley
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
Ellen DeGeneres
I’m really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
Lynn Shelton
As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.
Rob Wittman
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
Allen Tate
Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.
Chrystia Freeland
I’ve seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That’s in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
P. C. Cast
Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.
Paul Rudd
It’s probably what I’m most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space.
Justin Peck
We don’t say anymore ‘OK, we have a player who is unbelievably technically gifted, he will score us 20 goals but he doesn’t have to work hard.’ Everyone needs to put a shift in.
Adam Lallana
Mr. Trump’s election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising – just as it has in media more generally – and themes that might have once seemed innocuous or patriotic have suddenly become politically charged, controversial, and divisive.
James B. Stewart
I’m not working at the Chevron, although I’d probably be the best person to work the night shift. Look at me. Nobody would try to steal a Snickers on my watch.
Al Jourgensen
I think City is a really good example of how you shift the culture internally. We’ve had a big culture shift, particularly in the academy. Young boys are now more comfortable with strong female athletes being around.
Karen Bardsley
An unelected opposition in Parliament cannot change the PAP. GE 2011 and the Government’s response to shift to the left proved that.
Pritam Singh
I have always been musically inclined, whether it’s been playing the santoor from a young age or writing poetry that has now evolved into songwriting. So, I wouldn’t really call it a focus shift, but just pursuing a career path I am passionate about.
Ananya Birla
My cameo appearance in ‘Happy New Year’ doesn’t mean I am seriously considering a shift to cinema, not at all.
Kiku Sharda
A 12-hour shift is physically exhausting. You give multiple shots, wearing heavy jewellry and make-up – and end up with dark circles, acne, and skin problems.
Nia Sharma
When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
Om Malik
I initially became a trainer in 2002 to help people shape their bodies, to help them look the way they wanted to look. This would reflect the way I was living. I was focusing on the exterior. Then in 2003/4, I had a paradigm shift. I started a business for bariatric patients, pre- and post-gastric bypass.
Jessie Pavelka
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
Timothy Noah
Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.
John McDonnell
I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I’d just sit there and shift.
Adam West
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Maurice Strong
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
Jeffery Deaver
I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the golden triangle rule of photography composition.
Sasha Pivovarova
Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts – use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
Kara Swisher
Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in th

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a ‘leisure gap’ between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a ‘second shift’ at home.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
Naomi Wolf
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
Bill Gates
There are billions of dollars spent every year on traditional media. The majority of people are spending more time every day on the Internet, especially on mobile. You’re starting to see a shift of that spend go to mobile, especially to things like ‘Instagram’.
Kevin Systrom
Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy.
Sharan Burrow
For highly indebted governments, low interest rates are critical to keep debt levels sustainable and ease pressure to restructure debt and recapitalize banks. The shift to a high sovereign-debt-yield equilibrium would make it impossible to achieve fiscal balance.
Michael Spence
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I think a global season, moving it a bit towards summer, can only be a good thing from a playing and commercial point of view, but it would take a massive shift, and I do not know if it would happen in my career.
Alun Wyn Jones
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
Samantha Harvey
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.
Ernst Engel
I used to believe that it was not possible to lose someone I loved without sensing it somehow, without feeling something shift. But it’s not true. People can die, sometimes the closest people to us, without us noticing a thing.
Hisham Matar
I’m the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.
Ginni Rometty
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don’t need an instruction manual.
Martin Cooper
In hockey, sometimes a shift can go for a minute and a half, full out.
Max Aaron
As an actor, you tend to get excited about scenes that are weighty or meaty because you get to shift gears in a way that’s quite interesting.
Emma Corrin
When we are asked to bail out corporations and banks, or pass tax bills that shift billions in public dollars out of government, we must ask ourselves, who were we truly sent here to advocate for?
Rashida Tlaib
Stores don’t order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don’t produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it’s permanent.
Janet Yellen
Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama’s presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn’t sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama’s boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.
Andrew Ross Sorkin