Shift Quotes

“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

“We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”
― Al Gore

“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, The Underground Railroad

“The feminine is on the rise,
Intutive express and completely divine.
The age of Aquarius has met our souls,
We've come to dance earth bound to re create this world.”
― Nikki rowe

“Something needs to shift,' you cry.
'I can't deal with it the way it is.'

If something needs to shift,
shift something.

Anything.

Even something that doesn't work
will cause action, and in action
you will figure out more than
when you are stuck...

When you're stuck...
it's hard to get moving again.

When you feel like you can't move,
any movement will shake things up.”
― Shellen Lubin

“I lost my circadian rhythm during extreme night shift work and I restored it by using continuous light therapy. I was waking up at sunrise with the birds, no alarm clock needed.”
― Steven Magee

“We can learn a lot from young children and infants who are able to shift from agitation to amusement in a moment simply by having their needs met. Once crying newborns get fed, held, or changed, they don’t brood for another hour about how mad they are that it took so long for their caregivers to respond; they shift instantly. Unfortunately, we lose this ability and develop instead a habit of thinking and rationalizing our way through problems.”
― Rob Ryan Sullivan

“Every transformation precedes the letting go of your previous state.”
― Levi Ramos

“This Is Exactly
Where I Need to Be
Right Now
For My Long term
Growth & Happiness.”
― Ujjwal Arora, Affirmations: a daily handbook

“The sun works the day shift; the moon, the night shift.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Goucher is writing above about her goals for her upcoming race in Houston and how her priorities have shifted. “It’s not about the time. It’s about the love of putting in the work and then putting one foot in front of another.”
― Kara Goucher

“We don’t even know that we are trapped in them. It was exactly those subconscious programmes of learned helplessness and powerlessness that we acquired as children which were causing us to hand over our power to abusers and to stay traumatised. It isn’t until we start shifting out of these ways of being that we can unravel the old self and begin to be released into our true self.”
― Melanie Tonia Evans, You Can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse

“Night shift work has the potential to slowly kill you!”
― Steven Magee

“The night shift workers were unusual characters. They ranged from relatively normal to bizarre. It was widely acknowledged within the group that most personalities were abnormal. It was consistent with the sleep deprivation they were subjected to. The winter nights were really long and the days were too short for sufficient restorative sleeping. I was hallucinating while driving atop Mauna Kea! Inside the telescope control room I could feel a presence and would go looking for the person I thought was in the control room with me. I never found them. The summit is a spiritual place according to the Hawaiians. I most certainly had an invisible friend up there!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Things begin to fall into place when you start and end your day with prayers.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“A journey into self diagnosis and treatment was required when the medical profession left me suffering for years with Shift Work Disorder.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Night shifts are known for their ability to damage workers health.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“My employer never told me about Shift Work Disorder.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“I was diagnosed with a range of sleep disorders after leaving my extreme night shift job.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Progressing mental and physical illnesses were a feature of my Shift Work Disorder.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Shift Work Disorder is comparable to the walking dead.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“How hazardous are high powered industrial sodium LASER exposures to night shift summit staff working at very high altitudes across their full lifespan?”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“If a drift is a rift, it's a shift.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Be the one who, when you walk in,
blessing shifts to the one who needs it most.
Even if you've not been fed,
be bread.”
― Rumi

“I came home unexpectedly in the middle of the day and she was dressed up in her best clothes and make-up, like she was on her way out for a date. She told me never to come home in the middle of the day again! I left a few weeks later, as it was the final straw in the toxic relationship. She ended up with a rotating shift worker!”
― Steven Magee

“Night shift work is known to cause shift work disorders.”
― Steven Magee

“Night shift work is a known trigger of depression symptoms.”
― Steven Magee

“Want to wreck your long-term health? All you need to do is work the night shift for years.”
― Steven Magee

“... and what is a dream?
.
a dip inside
space beyond
Why would I mind?
Do you?”
― Julia Duclos, Helmet: a Bunch of Poems

“As humans, it is easy to feel limited. But things will shift for you once you realize we are powerful beyond measure. We were meant to use the tools given to us, to surpass those misperceived beliefs of ourselves in extraordinary ways.”
― Robin S. Baker