#become

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#before #child #consequence #fear #fears

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. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#change #fall #intriguing #like #love

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#dreams #expense #fears #insecure #more

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#become #career #life #must #own

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. ↗

— David Coverdale

#criticism #critics #dine #get #gets

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. ↗

— David Coverdale

#art #artist #become #could #design

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' ↗

— Tom Cruise

#avoiding #becomes #different #discussing #humanitarian

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#become #contributing #life #motion #people