Becoming Quotes - Page 32

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.