#shift

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world. ↗

— Bill Owens

#challenges #change #commitment #envy #fast

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. ↗

— Buck Owens

#clock #day #get #hours #kind

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#hard #i #myself #perspective #shifting

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#basically #become #company #demands #enormous

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#directors #films #modest #more #number

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#critical mass #idea #induce #mass #presence

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

#bruised #certain #change #comfort #even

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

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

— Larry King

#because #did #i #loved #me

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#banking #companies #customer #far #financial