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Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet. — Thomas Crum

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus — Derren Brown

No shifting in my car Blake,I don't want slobber all over my seats. Neesa — C.T. Todd

Shifting minds one word at a time. — MaryLynn Bast

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. — James Hansen

I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities. — Jordan Sonnenblick

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation. — Jeremy Gilley

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market. — Louis Navellier

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it's just a bigger screen. — Hari Sreenivasan

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. — Dylan Moran

For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing. — Lee Smith

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting. — Frederick Lenz

We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors. — Jorge Luis Borges

I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end. — Alyson Noel

The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an atmospheric spoon. — Neale Osborne

By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck — Marc Levinson

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. — Peter Drucker

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it. — Ray Mears

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life. — Carolyn Heilbrun

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. — John Naisbitt

As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. — Alain De Botton

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment. — John Zanetti

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. — Sidney Sheldon

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. — Gloria Swanson

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? — Bayard Taylor

In an ideal world everyone would ask "Who am I?" every day, and since "I" is constantly shifting, each new day would bring a new answer. — Deepak Chopra

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron

In the Valley. The power is shifting to the engineers who create the companies. — Michael Lewis

Never halt on a shifting slope. Even if you think you have a firm foothold ... — Rene Daumal

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood. — David Abram

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system. — Najib Razak

Up there in my snug sweet tower, I felt I'd made landfall in the shoals of shifting clouds. Far enough from the crowds to relish the crowds. — Kathleen Rooney

You are the lighthouse. The final destination. You can sleep easy, my dearest. The others . . . they are the shifting waves, But you are the harbor. — Margot S. Baumann

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are. — Mark Strong

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. — Mason Cooley

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. — Ira Sachs

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. — Philip Jose Farmer

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas. — Marcelo Gleiser

Say yes, Jordan," he said, shifting closer.
"No," I said.
Owen smiled. "Close enough." And then he kissed me. — Eli Easton

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. — Martha Beck

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income. — Ludwig Von Mises

It's pure bliss, baby. Total gratification. Absolute, complete earth shifting, universe shaking love. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Shifting your focus from getting to giving is not only a nice way to live life and conduct business, but a very profitable way as well. — Bob Burg

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other. — Amit Chaudhuri

as if the world was turning, its center shifting swiftly to the point where she was standing, her — Alexandra Engellmann

He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities. — Hilary Mantel

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people — Jan Morris

For a second it looked like a mortal horse. The next it was pure sand. Shifting from bright gold to violent red, fire and sun in a windswept desert. — Alwyn Hamilton

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. — Dennis C. Blair

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world. — Frederick Lenz

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting. — Will.i.am

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. — Livy

The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm. — Laird Koenig

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. — Roland Barthes

Dude, you got to draw your lines in the sand somewhere and hold them. It's especially important when the sand keeps shifting beneath your feet. — Karen Marie Moning

The dragon within my heart stirred, shifting her wings, as if remembering they could be used to fly. — Marie Brennan

Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer. — Jenny Han

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth. — Anais Nin

Life shifting, as life does — Luis Alberto Urrea

No more growling, pecking or shifting," Katlyn said. "It's against school rules to shift or attack each other. — Madison Johns

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection. — Victoria Holt

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else. — Marc Almond

We'll find your treasure. Shifting his head, he pressed — Stephanie Laurens

Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking. — Bryant McGill

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways. — Angela Lindvall

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you. — Frederick Lenz

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process. — Chuck Ragan

Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh. — Tara Conklin

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it. — Saul Berman

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Georg Kieninger

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes. — Christina Stead

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. — MC Paul Barman

there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together. — Helen Simpson

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation. — Craig Mundie

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it. — Richard Killeen

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written. — Peggy Toney Horton

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. — Jhumpa Lahiri

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. — Barbara De Angelis

When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes. — Jen Hatmaker

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers? — Jesse Schell

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. — Jeff Goodell

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen. — Beau Willimon

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. — Ron Fournier

This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. — Alexander McCall Smith

Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind. — Michael A. Persinger

I walk on the surface of a shifting bog. I have to grab for whatever I can find that is solid. — Morgan Llywelyn

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind — C.R. Strahan

We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change. — Cortney S. Warren

I tense. "What?" "Come on," he says, shifting — J.M. Darhower

A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving. — Pearl Zhu

What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away? — Jonathan Larson

There is a powerful shifting that takes place as we abandon the right to understand and yield to God's working in our lives. — Jo Ann Fore

No place is the same because everything is shifting always. — Frederick Lenz

An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements. — Jill Ker Conway

Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can't do it any longer. — Israelmore Ayivor

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. — Jaggi Vasudev