I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault. ' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault. ' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
I am scared of becoming a mother.
The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.
A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].
Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.
The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.
Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!
There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.
When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance
Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose.
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.