Abrupt Change Quotes

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

History tells us that sharp reversals in confidence occur abruptly.

I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It's almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.