Becoming Quotes
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.
The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.
People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
In the United States, I am often addressed as a doctor. I should like to point out, however, that I am not such and shall never think of becoming one.