Becoming Quotes - Page 5

• Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

  Brian Tracy

  Teamwork, Money, Business

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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• Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

  Myrna Loy

  Life, Dance, Dancing

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

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• Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 04, 2015

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• We work to become, not to acquire.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Food, Salad

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.12, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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• I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

  Elia Kazan

  Tennessee, Said, Shows

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• Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Inspirational, Running, Native American

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• I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Water, Toasters

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• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Encouraging, Want, Self Knowledge

  Journal, 1922

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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Change, Gratitude

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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• I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Sex, Women, Believe

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• Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

  Rajneesh

  Independent, Home, Treasure

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• A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Girl, Rejection, Firsts

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• Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Greatness

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• We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Player, Hands

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• You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.

  Jim Rohn

  Goal, Vision, Want

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• Give something back by becoming more

  Tony Robbins

  Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Giving

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

  Alison Moyet

  Stars, Sheep, Black

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• Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

  Susan Sontag

  Healthy, Alive, Becoming More

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

  Lucy Liu

  People, Looks, Want

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• No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

  Knut Hamsun

  Fate, Men, Young

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Sight, Kind

  Judy Chicago, Edward Lucie-Smith (1999). “Women and Art: Contested Territory”, Watson-Guptill Publications

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• Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

  Sandra Oh

  Calling, Actors, Hard

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