#become

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#become #car #changes #clothes #day

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

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