"Life is about Being & Becoming"

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Carl Rogers

#Change Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.”
“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”
“For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.”
“I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!”
“I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.”
“The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.”
“Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting whatâ€™s not working.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin
“And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.”

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