Becoming Quotes - Page 2

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

And really, I think I like who I'm becoming.

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.

The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Success means being satisfied with what you do every day. It's being proud of the better person you are becoming.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.