#becomes

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#becomes #discipline #fire #refining #talent

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#another #becomes #generation #height #often

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#becomes #circumstances #exists #love #other

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#also #becomes #child #only #realizes

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#because #becomes #countries #each #favor

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#bird #even #everything #flower #ocean

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ↗

— Edward Teller

#addiction #becomes #once #secrecy

This is what I always wanted to do in my entire life, so I am not going to sit here and complain that it is so terrible to be in successful movies, because it becomes a trilogy! ↗

— Alyson Hannigan

#am #because #becomes #complain #entire