Becoming Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

  Nina Berberova

  Inspirational, Ideas, Scare

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• We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, Taste

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• The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a major morphological transition and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid.

  Steven M. Stanley

  Example, Transition, Records

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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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• The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

  David Rockefeller

  Impact, Ecosystems, Growth

  "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.

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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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• The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Long, World, Imbalance

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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• In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Europe, Clothes, Arriving

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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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• New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

  David Rakoff

  New York, Heart, Wine

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• The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Ambitious, Philosopher

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• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Virtue, Lays

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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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• 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.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Becoming Better, Focus, Attention

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World: An Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

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• To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

  Primo Levi

  Taken, Islands, Names

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• Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

  Pat Robertson

  Depression, Keys, Remedy

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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  Kate Morton

  Retrospect, Realising, Seems

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• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Pilots, Helicopters, Percent

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

  Arianna Huffington

  Mom, Literature, Becoming A Mom

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Preparation

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Office, Employers

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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