Becoming Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.

People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.

A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.