Becoming Quotes - Page 35

• I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

  Karel Capek

  Thinking, Labels, Anarchist

  Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.

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• The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

  Evan Esar

  Wise, Wisdom, Realizing

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• Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Yoga, People

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Common Sense, Favour

  John Ruskin (1938). “Unto this last: and other essays”

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• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

  John Ruskin

  Choices, Understanding, Weakness

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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• Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Real, Struggle

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

  Frank Herbert

  Running, Risk, Machines

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Illustration, Doe

  "Collected Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1998.

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• We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have a service without giving an invitation or writing a book, without giving an invitation and presenting that truth. I believe this is the whole key to living your best life, living a fulfilled life or becoming a better you.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Believe, Book

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

  Tavis Smiley

  People, Forgiving, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

  Tavis Smiley

  Our World, Difficult, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I've conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I'm never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

  Fabolous

  Artist, Becoming The Best, Iron

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Change, Epiphany, Contradiction

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• I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.

  David Batchelor

  Everyday, Use, Littles

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Growing Up, Thinking, Cynical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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• It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Men, Doctors

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1746, Princeton University Press

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• Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

  Jay Leno

  Math, Should Have, Together

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• Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

  Jean Baudrillard

  Truth, Reality, Obvious

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.270, Stanford University Press

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• Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cosmos, Answers, Duration

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

  William Ernest Hocking

  May, Individual, Natural

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 33, p. 74, 1926.

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• When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.

  Max Stirner

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.

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• Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Christian, Personality, Community

  Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1985). “New Testament and Mythology: And Other Basic Writings”

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• Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Cities, Paris

  Bram Stoker (2015). “The Burial of the Rats”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Xenophobia, Looks, Century

  "Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict". Book edited by Tim Allen and John Eade (p. 41), June 30, 1999.

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• I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

  Gloria Estefan

  Dream, Children, Book

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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