Definition of Shifting

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Definition of Shifting
	Shifting of Shift Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles. Adapted or used for shifting anything. Related Definitions: Adapted, Anything, As, Changing, Direction, Fickle, For, In, Of, Or, Place, Position, Shift, Shifting, Used, Variable, Varying

Shifting Quotations

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen

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

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

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.
Theodor Herzl

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

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

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
Jennifer Granholm

Shifting Translations

shifting in French is mutation
shifting in Italian is trasferimento
shifting in Swedish is skiftande

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