Becoming Quotes

I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

When we started becoming friends [with Prince], I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

I think bitcoins are obviously becoming more and more relevant.

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

I am becoming the people I love.

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.