Becoming Quotes

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?

If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment

The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.