“I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.” DifferentOpportunityPathSawsCollegeBecomingLeavingAcademic Author:Jodie Foster
“Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.” MayLongDifferentLyingSupportPathWiseWifeChangedBecomingAspectGravesIdlenessMeadowsBachelors Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.” BigsPathIndustryBecomingComputerBright FutureBiotechnologyVon Neumann Book:Dreams of Earth and Sky Source: Dreams of Earth and Sky
“There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.” DreamWaitingStrugglePathSkyRevolutionBecomingSkinsUrgentMonarchs Author:Hakim Bey
“We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.” PeopleCarePathCenturyBecomingCapacityTeeth21st CenturySparta Author:Dennis Kucinich
“I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.” ThinkingJoyGuyPathBecomingComputerScaryComputer ScienceSuffocating Author:Kumail Nanjiani
“When dealing with problems, seek not to "change" some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.” WantProblemProcessHealingPathBecomingAspectTransformationWhat You WantAvoidingVersusDealing With Problems Author:Bill Crawford
“I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.” ThinkingBookStoriesBigsNovelPathBecomingEasierPublishers Author:Jess Walter
“Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I definitely think that this lesson transcends. Loving the life process. Loving the process of becoming stronger by experiencing something that makes me feel unsteady. The process of speaking and living my truth and making my own path.” ThinkingWayFeelsDifferentProcessMy OwnPathBecomingLessonsStrongerMusicalDifferent WaysMy TruthExperiencing SomethingBecoming Stronger Author:Madi Diaz
“I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to do live shows. A few times, I've thought about doing them again, but it's just kind of never happened. I've just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.” KindShowsArtistDecisionGonePathHappenedBecomingInvolvedAlbumsProductionsDeliberate Author:Kate Bush
“Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about not being a good enough daughter or friend, or my appearance, or whatever. I ended up becoming involved with a spiritual path in the yogic tradition, living in an ashram, doing a very rigorous spiritual practice.” EnoughSpiritualFallPracticePathJudgingBecomingInvolvedDaughterTraditionTwentiesAppearanceI RealizedGood EnoughSpiritual PathSpiritual PracticeMonitoringBecoming Involved Author:Tara Brach
“The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.” IfsYearsHas BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesPathBecomingDecadesDon't Change Author:David Swanson
“She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.” BookRealHomeDreamBigsKidsAbleWantedArtistReadingPathFansCollegeBecomingConsciousSevenRadioMotherhoodThanksLeftiesStudsGreat Fans Author:Sandra Cisneros