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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.
While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.
That's where the biggest shift has taken place. We have been propelled forward into our awakening because of the dimensional shifts on the planet.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...
I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
I've bought companies in response to the seismic shifts - the consumer preference for food and health and well-being and a gravitation toward more fresh and natural and organic.
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.
This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.
Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.
Patients deserve increased price transparency and affordable care, particularly as the system shifts significant costs to them.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.
Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.
I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.
The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.
As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail.
Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.
When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.
My parents work long, long shifts during the week and even on the weekend.
Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.
The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.