#become

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#against #become #better #considerably #human

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#confidence #expect #our #own #prophecy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#constantly #doing #even #everything #excellent

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#better #career #commits #every #excellent

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. ↗

— Spencer Tracy

#acting #back #become #changing #craft

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. ↗

— Mark Twain

#forbidden #more #popular #things

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anyway #become #been #beginning #figured

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. ↗

— John Updike

#activity #any #becomes #better #cares

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #big #brady #bunch #celebrity

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#habit #necessity #resisted #soon