Becoming Quotes
2806 Becoming quotes by 2054 unique authors
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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
— George Orwell
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Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of…
— Kelly Slater
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
— Margaret Fuller
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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
— Joseph Campbell
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Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is…
— Noy Holland
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Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
— Paulo Freire
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Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing…
— Heather O'Neill
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How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction…
— Donella Meadows
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Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or…
— Julius Evola
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But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a…
— Matt Labash
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My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.
— Carles Puyol
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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are…
— Mick Taylor
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We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming.
— Neil Strauss
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We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
— Vernon Howard
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You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.
— Viswanathan Anand
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Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.
— Peter Costello
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When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method…
— Chuck Close
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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is…
— Konrad Lorenz
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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…
— Harry Stack Sullivan
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a…
— Indra Nooyi
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know…
— C. Wright Mills
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies…
— Hermann Hesse
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