You get a lot of mileage from understanding what your voice is. When you have a strong idea and you know exactly what you're doing, it becomes hard for people to throw up resistance. It becomes much easier to work with you.
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
The world becomes more rewarding when you let yourself look beyond what you're searching for.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
A beginner gets so excited when he hits the ball in the air or maybe hits a nice bunker shot. A player who has won major championships doesn't get that excited about those shots anymore. It takes a lot more to excite you. The closer you get to perfection, the more difficult it becomes. That's what draws me to golf. It's such a challenge.
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.
To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.
Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.
I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable.
The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.