Quotes and Sayings About Becoming
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
-- AdyashantiSource : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True
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As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.
-- African Spir -
The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.
-- Al Franken -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
-- Alan Alda -
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
-- Alan Shepard -
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
-- Alastair ReynoldsSource : Alastair Reynolds (2016). “Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds”, p.189, Hachette UK
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
-- Albert Einstein -
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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
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Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
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Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.
-- Allison DuBoisSource : Allison DuBois (2008). “Don't Kiss Them Goodbye”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
-- Alva Myrdal -
I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.
-- Amy Chua -
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
-- Amy Grant -
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Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through.
-- Anais Nin -
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
-- AnaxagorasSource : "The History of Ancient Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Ritter, translared by Alexander James William Morrison, Volume 1, 1838.
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We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.
-- Anders Sandberg -
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Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.
-- Andre Simon -
When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?
-- Andrew Sean Greer -
What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
-- Anna Torv -
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Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.
-- Anna TorvSource : "Anna Torv: The season finale left me speechless". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 15, 2011 |.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
-- Anne Lamott