It takes a long time to become young.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
There is no love which does not become help.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.
I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‘I’s’ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.
You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.
Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.
All of us start from zero. We take the right decision and become a hero.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.
We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology.
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one’s opponent will never become a good Chess player.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
I think when things linger, that’s when they become a distraction. I don’t want any distractions.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker’s toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
Growing up, my dad was ‘get a real job, don’t go pursuing your dreams, that’s how you become homeless.’ So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
There’s got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture.
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
It’s so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there’s no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That’s pretty well known.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
