Becoming Quotes

• Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Perfect
  • Feelings
  • Process

• It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Fields
  • Stones
  • Useless

• You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Becoming

• When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Theatre
  • Ends
  • Clubs

• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Long
  • Decision
  • Accepting

• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Something
  • Without
  • Becoming

• Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

  

  William H. Hastie
  • Democracy
  • Conditions
  • Becoming

• People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.

  

  Spencer Smith Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Need
  • Becoming

• If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance.

  

  Will Hughes
  • Think
  • Ourselves
  • Others

• Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Past
  • Desperate
  • Circles

• The UK now boasts the highest level of broadband availability in the G8. We are now building on those efforts in becoming the first operator in the UK to commit to a national service which is capable of broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps. Our approach in getting the most out of ADSL technology means we get higher speeds to a national footprint as quickly as possible, making sure the opportunities are not just restricted to urban centers or those providers which operate their own networks.

  

  Paul Reynolds A Flock of Seagulls
  • Building
  • Approach
  • Broadband

• 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
  • Risk
  • Matter
  • Complacent

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Happy
  • Struggle
  • Adults

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

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• I'm becoming more adventurous.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • More
  • Becoming
  • Adventurous

• A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Society
  • Moral
  • Parent

• Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

  

  Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
  • Tired
  • Grew
  • Psychotic

• I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Obstacles

• . . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • High
  • Son

• The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hope
  • Growth
  • Lifetime

• Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Mean
  • Debt
  • University

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