Best 1199 quotes in «becoming quotes» category

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

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.

By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

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

Clients are becoming more and more savvy. They know what's happening in the brands; they know the new products that are coming out.

Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.

Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

Dieting is becoming easier and easier for me because I'm finding out things that I love.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

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?

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

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.

Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.

Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!