Top 363 Transition Quotes

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That’s why I transition.
Carmen Carrera
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury
I’m not sure anybody’s ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I’ve seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don’t think I’ve had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.
Seann William Scott
Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don’t stay here. They pass through. They might not ‘clean up,’ but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
Raf Simons
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn’t easy. And, you know, you don’t end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Wael Ghonim
With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.
Yasmine Hamdan
One of my strong suits is finding and creating transitions between moves, then stringing combinations into series.
Ricochet
Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?
Andrew Nikiforuk
In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
Bing Gordon
The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
G. Willow Wilson
One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you’ve got 200 reporters and cameras, and everybody is hanging on you. And three days later, you’re alone. And it’s quite a transition.
Walter F. Mondale
To achieve a successful transition, we don’t just have to remove Maduro. We also have to rescue our institutions themselves. That’s why we have set out three phases: ending Maduro’s usurpation of power, implementing a transition government, and holding free elections.
Juan Guaido
At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.
Kobe Bryant
The interval between the decay of the old and the forma

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun
I was there when Gordon Brown basically was taking over – so right in the middle of that transition. It was fantastic; I learnt a lot.
Jacinda Ardern
Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I’ve watched iconic companies disappear – Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment – as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.
John T. Chambers
The transition from an English father to a Punjabi stepfather demanded an adjustment that was far from easy for a 10-year-old boy who had just lost his father.
Ruskin Bond
We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
Jeff Zucker
I’ve been listening to Herbie Hancock forever. He’s gone through so many transitions, even before bringing hip-hop to the forefront with ‘Rockit’ and everything.
DJ Premier
As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case.
Barry Gardiner
People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to ‘Rookie’ magazine. But it wasn’t a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
Tavi Gevinson
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
Jurgen Habermas
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
Ban Ki-moon
We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
Joe Biden
Life is one big transition.
Willie Stargell
I clung to my vegan friends for more support than anyone because they helped guide me and made the transition much easier. My family was a bit skeptical, as they felt like I wasn’t getting enough protein in my vegan diet.
Karen Civil
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul Berg
As Governor of Colorado, I will continue to transition our state away from fossil fuels to more clean, renewable sources of energy.
Cary Kennedy
Fashion gave me the platform that has made this transition from fashion to Hollywood, from East Coast to West Coast. Fashion gave me the platform that has made this easier than it is for a lot of other people. And I will always count fashion as the industry that was first to welcome me and embrace what I could do.
Hari Nef
At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things.
Peter Diamandis
In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it’s reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
James Fallows
‘Rent’ was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.
Mj Rodriguez
I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.
Andy Roddick
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
Richard V. Allen
MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.
Charles Petzold
It feels good to be able to go from music to film and have a good transition and be given the opportunities I’ve been given.
Xzibit
My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we’ve made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
Buzz Aldrin
I’m aware of the fact that I don’t know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That’s the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
Mandy Patinkin
I like to get the ball in transition and go and everything, but I’m also not as dependent on having the ball all the time as I was maybe in college and when I first got to the NBA.
Jimmer Fredette
I’d like to be a more consistent starter. I’d like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
Donovan Bailey
I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make my voice more feminine, gotten gender reassignment surgery, and spent time to complete my transition, but I didn’t want to wait. I wanted to be in the world.
Hari Nef
Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I’ve been set free.
Carmen Carrera
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
Sloane Crosley
Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's dep

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone’s depressed.
Drew Pinsky
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
Loni Anderson
We make a lot of fun at President Clinton’s expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it’s been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.
David Letterman
They shut down kids’ homes, for a number of reasons, and I was part of that transition into foster care. That’s all well and good if it’s populated by people who feel their work is paid decently and supported.
Lennie James
Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.
Mickey Rooney
We’re trying to fix this with the plan we’ve been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or – and the ‘or’ is the only part that matters – 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.
Michael K. Powell
My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.
Gong Li
It’s not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we’re in a transition to a world economy, it’s still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.
Michael Crichton
A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
Federica Mogherini