Quotes About Becoming

#1. The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

Pope Paul VI

#2. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

J.K. Rowling

#3. The art of DJing is sharing music with one another ... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

Kaskade

#4. Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

Anne Lamott

#5. Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

Bruce Coville

#6. It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.

Theodore Dalrymple

#7. It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more important to reflect that life that goes on behind these photographs. (1935)

Margaret Bourke-White

#8. In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'

Desmond Morris

#9. Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress ... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Zhou Xun

#10. Reflect the light of love by becoming the mirror of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I play Sun-Hi, a Korean-American girl who is a social media expert and dreams of becoming a worldwide star. Being on Make It Pop is so much fun because we get to sing dance and act all in one production which is a dream come true! Working with the cast and crew is also a blast!

Megan Lee

#12. I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

Billy Connolly

#13. You should thank me for tolerating you. I had hoped that becoming a royal would cure your foul manners."
"That's interesting. My father hoped that stripping me of royalty would do the same thing.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#14. ...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.

John Clellon Holmes

#15. When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

Seth Lloyd

#16. Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely.

Haruki Murakami

#17. A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology ... we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the land and identity of a region ... because we want to solidify and objectify the magical, bygone years that preceded the horror of becoming an adult.

Muriel Barbery

#18. In each speck of mud of which we are made, however small or seemingly insignificant, one can find traces of the matter that melts and glows at high temperatures, that gets cold and hardens, becoming in the end what we sometimes call poetry.

Vladimir Tasic

#19. My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Audrey Hepburn

#20. I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Robyn Davidson

#21. One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic. False feelings are allowed to clog the works like raw honey poured into the tiny wheels of a fine timepiece.

Alan Bradley

#22. In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.

Pope John Paul II

#23. As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

Susan Jeffers

#24. There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

John Niven

#25. I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.

Rabindranath Tagore

#26. The mind always moves on and on. Whatsoever you get becomes useless. The moment you get it, it is useless. This is desire. Buddha has called it trishna: this is becoming.

Osho

#27. In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller.

Angelos Michalopoulos

#28. I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

Abigail Washburn

#29. From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women and
girls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles and
emotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasingly
hostile to the womenfolk

Oche Otorkpa

#30. If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become ... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?

Muriel Barbery

#31. You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

Danilo Kis

#32. The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls - he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

Michael Scott

#33. I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

Carlos Wallace

#34. It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Thorstein Veblen

#35. Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Toni Braxton

#36. I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

#37. In Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best defines excellence as "the process of becoming better than I once was.

Bob Kauflin

#38. Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

Soren Kierkegaard

#39. In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

James Gordon Lindsay

#40. You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.

Jai Courtney

#41. 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.

Julia Sweeney

#42. We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable.

Jerry Garcia

#43. You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

Eckhart Tolle

#44. But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered. I didn't want to die. Even if it meant becoming something I loathed, my nature was, first and always, to survive.

Julie Kagawa

#45. Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

Jack London

#46. Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

Steve Carell

#47. The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Jim Rohn

#48. One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.

Michael Moorcock

#49. The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

Richard Wilson

#50. Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

T.F. Hodge

#51. Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Phyllis Schlafly

#52. I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

Elisabeth Moss

#53. A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Martin Luther

#54. Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

Scott Westerfeld

#55. Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#56. I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.

Jill Soloway

#57. My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

Philippe Petit

#58. Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? ... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Mark Twain

#59. Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my ... " "Mistress?

Gail Carriger

#60. Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Matthew Arnold

#61. In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.

Sundar Pichai

#63. If schools continue to follow an outdated educational model focusing on preparation for an industrialized workforce, they run the risk of becoming irrelevant to our students and communities.

Eric C. Sheninger

#64. I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

Anita Roddick

#65. I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

Lisa Kudrow

#66. I would say that an easterner's first grunion hunt is also his first step in becoming what all of us sooner or later become here: beachcombers of some sort.

Max Miller

#67. Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to powerfully transform our lives for the better. A pioneering, beautifully-written book.

Dean Ornish

#68. I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

Jennie Finch

#69. I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing. More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.

Anais Nin

#70. Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

Ann Aguirre

#71. Jesus's central message was not primarily about how to get to heaven when you die, or about becoming a better person. The central message of Jesus was about the coming of God's kingdom.

Preston Sprinkle

#72. I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.

Stephen Richards

#73. There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#74. Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely historical universe that they
have chosen, rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma: either police rule or insanity.

Albert Camus

#75. I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

John Fusco

#76. The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

David Limbaugh

#77. I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Jason O'Mara

#78. I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

Megan Smith

#79. The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

Bill Gates

#80. I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

Leroy Chiao

#81. If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

Jean Cocteau

#82. Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'

Alan Sugar

#83. becoming like the gods" by mixing humanity with both animals and machines,

Rob Skiba

#84. Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

C.S. Lewis

#85. Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

John Green

#86. If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

Will Rogers

#87. Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.

Clyde Butcher

#88. To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

Gautama Buddha

#89. My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

Edith Konecky

#90. The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
into bed.

William Styron

#91. While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

Jonathan Haidt

#92. Delusion has a way of becoming part of life when you least expect it, or maybe when you most need it.

Julia Kent

#93. Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

Joseph Rotblat

#94. We splinter into a thousand pieces in her kitchen, becoming more together than we were apart. More than we were alone. With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts.

Kennedy Ryan

#95. Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Pope Paul VI

#96. We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#97. She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention ... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.

Paul Valery

#98. I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

Ben Lerner

#99. There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

Alan Palomo

#100. Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ...

Barbara Elsborg