Becoming Quotes - Page 39

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

We almost have to force or drive ourselves to work hard if we are to reach our potential. If we don't enjoy what we do, we won't be able to push as hard as we need to push for as long as we need to push to achieve our best. However, if we enjoy what we do and if we're enthusiastic about it, we'll do it better and come closer to becoming the best we can be.

We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan has always been to be read more widely by doing just what I've always done. I wanted to break into the mainstream without becoming mainstream.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.