Top 342 Shift Quotes

Participating in Miss India was a paradigm shift and I had a blast.
Dia Mirza
What we’re going for is the future of engagement. That’s what Calaxy is designed to do. It’s a complete paradigm shift.
Spencer Dinwiddie
What I like about climbing that it’s so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.
Adam Ondra
As I said, when we needed to move over to rock’n’roll, Sam and Vernon couldn’t quite make the shift. So that’s when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.
Neil Innes
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.
Elin Hilderbrand
When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what’s in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
Josh Pais
Country music is just country. It’s going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
Steven Curtis Chapman
When I finished the trilogy of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, I had a gear shift and thought, ‘I need to take a moment to smell the roses.’
Orlando Bloom
We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.
Gloria Steinem
I’m able to tell when I’m in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you’re stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.
Marion Cotillard
‘Emeril’ came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don’t regret it. I had a really good time.
Carrie Preston
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 what it’s for.
Salman Rushdie
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
Bill Drayton
A worldwide shift to a shorter working week could cut the CO2 emitted this century by half. Countries with a shorter working week have a smaller ecological footprint.
Rutger Bregman
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
Chobani did a really wonderful yogurt campaign on ‘Instagram’ to shift perceptions away from the fact that they were just yogurt. And they had a 7-point incremental lift on shifting that perception through a brand advertisement on Instagram.
Kevin Systrom
It’s going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there’s a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.
Misty Copeland
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
Thomas More
Because Led Zeppelin weren’t having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record, it was a body of work for an album. So you could get the shift and the movement forwards as opposed to having to be rooted back to a single that might have been done a year ago.
Jimmy Page
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
Karl Schroeder
Even professional, paid carers aren’t always models of saintly behaviour – and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
Laurie Graham
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it’s welcome.
Kristin Armstrong
I want to be the best with the ball in my hands as a receiver – or as a player, period. And I think when I get the ball, my game changes. I don’t know what it is, I just shift gears.
Demaryius Thomas
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
Dennis C. Blair
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Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That’s not to say I want to go make ‘Star Wars’, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That’s where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.
Edward Burns
The financial crisis of 2008 created a seismic shift in the dynamics of trust in financial services. FinTech would have happened without the global financial crisis – but it would have taken much longer.
Taavet Hinrikus
Climate change makes machine learning that much more valuable, too: So much of the data available to scientists is not necessarily accurate anymore, as animals move their habitats, temperatures rise and currents shift. As species move, managing populations becomes even more critical.
Tatiana Schlossberg
Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.
Joel Osteen
If I’ve learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.
Stephen Moore
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
John Deacon
I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there’s an adjustment that you have to make.
Kristen Wiig
The paradigm shift of the ImageNet thinking is that while a lot of people are paying attention to models, let’s pay attention to data. Data will redefine how we think about models.
Fei-Fei Li
I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
John C. Reilly
A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children’s daily lives.
Darell Hammond
There’s nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I’ve put a shift in, feeling that I’ve pushed myself to the max.
Fabian Delph
It’s always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.
Peter Forsberg
I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with ‘Night Shift’ and ‘Splash’.
Brian Grazer
The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend – one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.
Arvind Gupta
Every five years, there is a shift in cinema space, but we are slow to catch that. Young people understand that shift.
Mahesh Bhatt
During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
Burton Richter
Wind is God’s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it’s hotter to areas where it’s cooler. That’s what wind is.
Joe Barton
Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.
James Carville
People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I’ll make it because it’s best for me.
Bode Miller
Part of calling ourselves Live Nation was about starting to shift the way we think, to be first and foremost fan-focused.
Michael Rapino
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of the craft. I had never written a word of narrative. What is a tense shift, what is point of view? I didn’t know any of it.
Tara Westover
There’s nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don’t see anything on the horizon that is changing that.
Aneel Bhusri
I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.
Jeff Buckley
I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn’t quite realize that this has happened. Don’t tell them about it.
Hayao Miyazaki
For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
Michael C. Hall
It’s tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
Adam Cohen
I’ve seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that’s hard for me to take.
Billy Corgan