Becoming Quotes - Page 18

• There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

  Graham Lowe

  Sports, Travel, Team

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• The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

  Jon Stewart

  Just Being, Oppression, Danger

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• Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

  William James

  Trying, Gone, Moments

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Tattoo, Thinking, Years

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• Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.

  Debby Applegate

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Fire, World

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• We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Museums, Knowing

  "FULL TEXT: Pope Francis' message, youth encounter, UST". Pope Francis' speech at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, www.rappler.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Success, People, Well Known

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• Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because thats what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.

  Donna Freitas

  Girl, Together, Littles

  Donna Freitas (2011). “The Survival Kit”, p.344, Macmillan

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• It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

  Romano Prodi

  Perfect One, Constitution, Perfect

  "Full interview with Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission". www.euractiv.com. February 20, 2004.

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• Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

  Bow Wow

  Life Changing, Pieces, Want

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• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.

  W. G. Sebald

  Taken, Mirrors, Civilization

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• Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

  Quintilian

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Silence, Way, Easy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Fashion, Teenager

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• I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth because you're in danger of becoming free.

  Jules Dervaes

  Believe, Empowering, Growing

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• I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Reading, Artist

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• Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.192, Harmony

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• You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord.

  Stormie Omartian

  Christ, Lord, Position

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Woman”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

  Frank Pierson

  Dream, Civilization, Who We Are

  "‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner ‘Lucky’ to Have Worked With the Late Frank Pierson in WGAW Statement About His Passing" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  William Labov

  Years, African American, Important

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• The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Trust, Taken, May

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• Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stones, Fame, Building

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.

  Bob Parsons

  Believe, Names, Important

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