Becoming Quotes - Page 18

• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stones, Fame, Building

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Becoming Better, Focus, Attention

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World: An Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

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• A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.

  Bob Parsons

  Believe, Names, Important

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• To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

  Primo Levi

  Taken, Islands, Names

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• May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Thinking, Police

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.248, Image

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• Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

  Pat Robertson

  Depression, Keys, Remedy

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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  Kate Morton

  Retrospect, Realising, Seems

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

  Susan Sontag

  Becoming One, Ironic, World

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

  Martin Amis

  Fashion, Thinking, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Pilots, Helicopters, Percent

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• There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mom, Literature, Becoming A Mom

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

  Guy Finley

  Dark, Light, Resistance

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Preparation

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

  Glenn Ford

  Thinking, Important, Directors

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• Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Office, Employers

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Ideas, Haunting, Settling

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• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.

  Og Mandino

  Self, Humans, Human Beings

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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Silence, Risk

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• It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Beach, College, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, Political, Danger

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