Becoming Quotes - Page 8

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

It's not just about creativity. It's about the person you're becoming while you're creating.

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

Rap was slowly becoming one of my hustles, but it wasn't my main hustle. But I come from a family of hustlers, so once I figured the hustle out and mastered it, I took it to my brothers like... "we can flip this just like we flip anything else"... and they were with it but also sort of slow to come all the way on board.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

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

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.

The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

[In 2007] People's relationship with a brand is becoming a dialog, not a monolog.