Becoming Quotes - Page 40

• The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

  Brigham Young

  Purpose, Lord, Becoming God

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it's becoming a force to be reckoned with. There's a lot of Mormon converts globally.

  Larry Wilmore

  Believe, Two, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meditation, Three, Inward

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• In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

  Louise Bernikow

  Mother, Past, History

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, California, Fake

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Differences, Government

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

  Ruth Gordon

  Thinking, Why Not, Critics

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

  Dervla Murphy

  Journey, Cycling, Advantage

  Dervla Murphy (1995). “Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle”, HarperPerennial

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• I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Cynical, Marketing

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• Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

  Henry Martyn

  Beautiful, Art, Pride

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• Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

  Susan Griffin

  Dying, Becoming Someone, Frightening

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Women, Self, Becoming A Woman

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• If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

  William Barclay

  People, Should, Critical

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• prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Prayer, Real, Would Be

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• 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.

  Betsy Byars

  Growing Up, Real, Pet

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• My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, Becoming One, Sight

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• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Silly, Thinking

  "Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". "Jacket Copy", latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Hands, Skills

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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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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• 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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• Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

  Hal Elrod

  Focus, Achieve, Becoming More

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