Becomes Quotes

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.