Becoming Quotes - Page 12

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

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

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.

You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

. . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.

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.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

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