41 Quotes About Shift

It’s never too late to learn about life and the world. The world is filled with opportunities for all of us to grow and learn, and sometimes it can be hard to know where to start. In this section, we’ve compiled a series of shift-related quotes from some of the greatest thinkers in history. These wise men and women have been through enough to have a sense of perspective about life and what you can expect from your own journey Read more

Read their words, reflect on your own experiences, and maybe you’ll find a different perspective on life that can help guide you along your own path.

Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class...
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Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness and heart, lung and brain damage. Steven Magee
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Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift starts before sunset and finishes at midnight and the second night shift starts with a new fresh person working through to after sunrise. Steven Magee
If you want to feel the sunshine, change position!
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If you want to feel the sunshine, change position! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area. . Christina Engela
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Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close but from the outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how much space you had. On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The place was big in its smallness. Here, she was free of her master but slunk around a warren so tiny she couldn't stand. Colson Whitehead
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions...
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We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. Al Gore
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Humans are funny. The more someone doesn’t want someone, the more that someone wants that someone. The time came when she started pulling away. She had developed a tendency to focus on the things that she didn’t respect in him and eventually that’s all she saw. Kate McGahan
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Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world. Roshan Sharma
At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you...
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At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change. J.R. Rim
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Build a solid courage behind what you believe you can do. Your dreams may drift and fall, but when your courage is strong and still, you can’t shift; you’ll lift your dreams again! Israelmore Ayivor
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Success has no other shortcuts apart from the ones that tell you; control thoughts, delete negativity, alternate actions and shift attitudes to become positive! Click on passion, it opens a new window for you to sign in on time! Israelmore Ayivor
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He continued with a laugh, "And for highly motivated people, there are few more frustrating situations than realizing that the goals you've set will require a shift in the basic laws of time and space. Eric C. Sinoway
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How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. Marisha Pessl
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Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. Sara Sheridan
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To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak. Peter V. Brett
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One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot. Israelmore Ayivor
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The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13, 796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9, 200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal. Steven Magee
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It was something new for her. New roads, new people, new places, new opportunities and new perspective. This is the one thing that inevitably moves a person through the grief. Growth heals grief. Kate McGahan
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Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be. William George Jordan
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Shift your focus to achieve your purpose. Life is all about change! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Your later may be late. Never postpone your salvation HOURS to tomorrow. If it's not now, it may be never. The days are not OURS! Israelmore Ayivor
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Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today’s work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high. Israelmore Ayivor
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Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer. Israelmore Ayivor
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Shift yourself away from the slippery ground of bad attitudes and you’ll not drift off! Israelmore Ayivor
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Don’t cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. You can’t do all things in one day. You can’t chase two rabbits at the same time. Both will escape. Israelmore Ayivor
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When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own “Kaizin”. Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits Israelmore Ayivor
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A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth. Sanjo Jendayi
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The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding. Roshan Sharma
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It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over what I did wrong each day. It shifts my perspective, thus making my body and mind more hospitable places for healing and positive energy. Sharon E. Rainey
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Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: “why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing? Sunday Adelaja
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They all call me "Excuse me, " even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working. Workers are just tools who aren't supposed to have feelings or personalities. You don't become human until your shift is over. Until then, we're all just zombies. We're dead to the world: infected people who need to be avoided, unless, of course, someone needs to know where the paintbrushes are located. J. Cornell Michel
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I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me. Anthony Liccione
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God is trying to tell us that there is a shift taking place in the body of Christ especially in the way we do church Sunday Adelaja
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Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women Hugh Howey
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Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures. Gift Gugu Mona
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God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar. Anthony Liccione
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We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit Sunday Adelaja
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It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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When we shift our perception, our experience changes. Lindsay Wagner