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“You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.”

Ends Done Fear Becoming Who You Are Circles Jumping Becoming Who You Are

Author:Paula Abdul

“Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.”

Ends Process Becoming Goodness

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.”

Ifs Ends Facts Becoming Harm Frightening

Author:Paula Rego

“I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.”

People Ifs Ends Stuff Focus Becoming Messages Who You Are Desperate Appreciated Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Being Appreciated

Author:Rick Owens

“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.”

“The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.”

Want Ends Reason Jobs Lines Imagine Becoming Band Hanging Out

Author:Pete Wentz

“The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.”

World Ends Choices Understanding Becoming Degrees Weakness Vulgar Selection Offended Readiness Discredit Silliness

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.”

Should Doe Art Ends Artist Given Class Poverty Middle Becoming Comfortable Training Should Have Complaining Middle Class

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.”

Ends Happens Becoming Elements Standards Consumers Apprehension Standards Of Living

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.”

Ifs Art Two Ends Knowing Plans Danger Becoming Art Is Built Experiments Crafts Obsessed Experimental Science

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.”