Top 342 Shift Quotes

I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called ‘Earn to Learn,’ where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift – midnight to eight A.M. – and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
Boyd Holbrook
It’s like, if you have a story that’s already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we’re telling that story, how we’re presenting it to the world.
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
The Trump family’s business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, ‘No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies’.
Naomi Klein
I’m very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it’s hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I’m a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I’ve spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.
Kajal Aggarwal
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.
Paul Bloom
While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.
Jeff Fortenberry
When an incident is reported, HR almost always starts from a place of disbelief. They request evidence and ask for proof. But if HR is investigating a sexual harassment case within the company, it is their duty as HR to protect their employees. That is the sentiment that has to shift.
Cheryl Yeoh
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard
When you’re a detective on the midnight shift, you don’t have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it’s big or small.
Michael Connelly
My mother’s openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I’m open to everything. And I don’t have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences – and as my context changes, so does what I believe.
Amy Tan
From a narrative perspective, ‘Blue Shift’ for the PC and ‘Blue Shift’ for the Dreamcast are very similar.
Randy Pitchford
Sometimes you are physically tired at night, but your brain is functioning too much to go to sleep. If you can have software that helps you understand how you can shift from such a tense situation to being more relaxed, then that would help.
Satoru Iwata
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn’t necessarily the fear of being ‘found out.’ It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
Terry Gross
The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
Noreena Hertz
Blue Shift’ is a game that I’m very proud of.
Randy Pitchford
‘Night Shift’ is the only breakup song I’ve ever written.
Lucy Dacus
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government’s approach to Islamic terrorism.
Amy Waldman
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
Geddy Lee
I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It’s extremely liberating. I breathe differently.
Shai Agassi
What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
Ted Cruz
With families, your priorities shift. You’re not going to be like, ‘Let’s go out on tour year-round.’ I have kids in school. You have to lay things out.
Drew Lachey
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
P. J. O’Rourke
I will say this, being an anchor is easier than being a reporter, because one of the things I’m able to do is essentially work a bit of a split shift.
Brianna Keilar
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Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.
Ron Ben-Israel
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
Ken Goldberg
In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.
Colin Powell
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Laurence Sterne
I still have to say that I did ‘Dirty Pretty Things’ 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn’t feel it was impossible to make a film like that.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
‘Rapper’s Delight’ came from the TV entertainment show ‘Good Times,’ but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront.
Steve Stoute
When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.
Lisa Bonet
We’re leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
Lynn Jurich
During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.
Jack Monroe
There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.
Michelle Bachelet
The more I have a sincere connection to something, the less acting is required. And the more it’s about creating the space to feel that connection and to feel that shift from yourself. And start interpreting things through new eyes.
Adrien Brody
As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado’s model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.
Stuart Rose
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
Lawrence Eagleburger
I wanted to write about how people’s beliefs shift.
Alexei Sayle
Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.
Earl Sweatshirt
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
Azealia Banks
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
John W. Thompson
I worked in WH Smiths on Sloane Square and my first boss was a woman called June. My shift was half a day on Saturdays, and nine to six on Sundays. I was in and out of the place and only turned up when I wanted to.
Ashley Walters
Many countries – as well as cities, states and provinces – are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.
David Suzuki
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.
Sandra Tsing Loh
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I’m trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
Daniel H. Pink
New ties between Russia and Japan would mark not only a breakthrough in their relations but also a significant shift in Northeast Asia’s political dynamic.
Fiona Hill
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
Geoff Mulgan
I’d like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That’s what we’ve wanted all along, and we knew there’d be fearless steps to take to achieve that.
Zacky Vengeance
On a normal day, I love a shift dress with flats and a little cropped jacket. That, for me, is my travel wear if it’s not too chilly – you can throw a scarf over your legs if it’s cold on the plane!
Meghan Markle
Whether we make it a condition or just through persuasion or just through popular support, whatever it takes, we really do need to shift through a system of voting where the way the Canadian public votes is the way the Canadian Parliament is formed after the election.
Elizabeth May