#transforms

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#any #character #i #i think #like

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #elimination #fear #individual #transforms

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#also #book #character #could #down

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#doing #every #evolving #information #just

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#evolving #existing #information #merely #physical

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#gives #god #into #talent #transforms

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#into #kiss #marriage #miracle #pleasure

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#being #capable #desires #intense #into