Becoming Quotes - Page 40

• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Names, Profound, Quality

  "Ease of use: a system design challenge" by L.M. Branscomb and J.C. Thomas, IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, September 1984.

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• Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever

  Masiela Lusha

  Art, Forever, Acting

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Moments, Intense

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Luxury, Silence

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• What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

  Eula Biss

  Real, Reading, Book

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• Today I am discovering who I am.  Today I am becoming my person, worthy of developing all of me.  Today I am beginning to know that I am okay the way I am.

  Ruth Fishel

  Who I Am, Today, Way

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• Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

  Hal Elrod

  Focus, Who You Are

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• Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

  Hal Elrod

  Focus, Achieve, Becoming More

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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  Damian Lewis

  People, Giving, Acting

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

  Christian Slater

  Challenges, Helping, Moments

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

  Kevin Bacon

  Giving Up, Men, Years

  Interview with George Gurley, www.elle.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

  Brendan Coyle

  Dream, Jobs, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

  Patti LuPone

  New York, Grateful, Cities

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• Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Law, Ideas

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.171

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• SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sap, Oracles, Chaos

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• I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Thinking, Groups

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• In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.

  Merlin Stone

  Unique, Egypt, Isis

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.12, Doubleday

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• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  Dan Byrd

  Responsibility, People, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Insecurity, Adults

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• Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Men, Class, People

  "Breaking Bad" Q&A: Star Giancarlo Esposito Discusses the Season Finale". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2011.

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• For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

  Adam Shankman

  Games, Directors, Ends

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• For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

  Vinnie Jones

  People, Parent, Doe

  "Vinnie Jones: My family life". Interview with Dina Behrman, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.

  Vinnie Jones

  Boys, Mps, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.

  Taeyang

  Becoming The Best, Want, Singers

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