Transformative Quotes

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not. - Iain Duncan Smith

When we come together to play and be we are truly ourselves When we are truly ourselves it is wonderful and when we act collectively in that wonder we do transformative work for our community and our world. - Brad Colby

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits. - David Cameron

We need something as mundane as a loading dock. We need to prepare, for example, for the arrival of the river, which is going to be transformative. - Marion Oettinger

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be evolutionary but not transformative. - Adrienne Rich

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ''revolutionary'' but not transformative. - Adrienne Rich

We believe that nanotechnology will have a transformative effect on cancer diagnosis and treatment. In fact, its impact is already visible in the research being conducted through many of the centers we are announcing today. Through the applications of nanotechnology, we will increase the rate of progress towards eliminating the suffering and death due to cancer. - Andrew Von Eschenbach

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. - Thomas More

This credit provides critical and timely support for the technical inputs required to strengthen Kenya's public financial management systems. It also acknowledges the role of ethics in public life by financing values-based programs in transformative leadership. - Colin Bruce