Top 90 Shifts Quotes

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

It’s not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they’re visible above the surface.

Profound political shifts – events that suddenly split families and friends, cut across social classes, and dramatically rearrange alliances – do not happen every day in Europe, but neither are they unknown.

Every person who starts at Boxed does shifts at the fulfillment center. It doesn’t matter if you are the general counsel or the COO.

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that’s all I need to think about if I’m having difficulties.

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film ‘Amores Perros,’ you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I’m really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That’s what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

Some of the hard part of coaching is to be able to drag people over to the next side. People are comfortable with doing business a certain way. When that business kind of shifts to get people to change, it’s not easy. It’s a process.

It’s common for cultural shifts to start with young, urban adopters before going mainstream.

That’s one wonderful thing about country music – it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

If they need me to have 25 carries and eight catches a game, whatever they need me to do, I’m ready to go. Or if they need me to have eight carries and six catches but play the whole game and pass protect and help shifts on the D-ends, I’m ready to go.

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you’ve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Any time you have a change of leadership in an organization, everything kind of shifts.

Baseball’s postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

Mum was a nurse and worked night shifts, but cooked all our evening meals and breakfasts.

Declines in specific industries can never ignite a general depression. Shifts in data will cause increases in activity in one field, declines in another.

It doesn’t help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It’s better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build… rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

‘Superunknown’ was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don’t think I realized it at the time.

Once I tune in to the fact that my family receives my cooking for them as an act of love – that it’s actually something that makes them feel cared for – it shifts my entire perspective.

I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, ‘I’m not babysitting him no more. He’s bad.’ It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, ‘I’m going to be good now.’

The beauty of ‘Parenthood’ is that it’s a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

I never know if I’m the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation – truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what’s perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter’s gender.

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, and his aura more feminine. Some called him a traitor to his race. Some fussed about his gender fluidity. I saw him as a post-modern shape-shifter. But the shifts grew more extreme and mysterious.

Gone are those days where I would probably work for five shifts in a day.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called ‘advanced insecurity.’

When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time at my grandfather’s house. He taught at UCLA and was just really into history. Before bed, when other kids heard fairy tales, he would tell us about the American founding fathers and the beginning of democracy.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

As a farmer’s son, I am familiar with the long, mucky shifts of our dairy workers.

The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in – not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it – I’m serious: it’s an actual job.

Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated novels all begin to resemble each other the tacitly accepted view of what a good novel must be (and must be about) shifts imperceptibly.

Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.

The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage years.

I have always wanted my children’s dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up – they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

All the big revolutions, whether it’s the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people’s voices, and those things weren’t voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.

You get up about 2-3 o’clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That’s the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It’s just the natural order of things in TV – in life – and is as it should be.