Becoming Something Quotes

• Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Kids, Parent, Trying

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• Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Talking, World

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• Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Rain, Glasses, Rivers

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.45, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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• As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Country, Obamacare, Employment

  "Oct. 20: Benjamin Netanyahu, Jack Lew, Chuck Schumer, Tom Coburn, Chuck Todd, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Maria Bartiromo, Andrea Mitchell". Political roundtable, www.nbcnews.com. October 20, 2013.

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• When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

  Nas

  Real, Perfect, Hip Hop

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• Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

  Bow Wow

  Life Changing, Pieces, Want

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• Genius is becoming something you were all along.

  David Whyte

  Genius, Becoming

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• True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Commitment, Goal

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Eye, Two

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• We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dream, Taken, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.215, Bantam

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• Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

  William Shatner

  Philosophical, Character, Play

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• Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

  Donald Trump

  Pain, Discipline, Focus

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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 ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.

  Noy Holland

  Baby, Art, Reading

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• Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Knowing, Heaven

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• We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

  Will Smith

  Growing Up, Matter, Becoming

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• I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Art, Drinking, Moving

  "Rosecrans Baldwin Meets His Paris Match". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

  Tony Harrison

  Scare, Want, Becoming

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• I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

  Danny Hillis

  Journey, Way, Becoming

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

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• All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

  Donald Miller

  Moving, Alive, Becoming

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.193, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Vacuums, Quagmire

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• It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Ideas, Creepy, Sound

  Elizabeth Hand (2013). “Generation Loss”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

  William Petersen

  Dark, People, Trying

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• Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

  Michael Ruppert

  Suicide, War, Bridges

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