To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make. Atul Gawande daydoctorend share on social
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be. Marcus Samuelsson cookgoodpoint Change image and share on social
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension. Rachel Cusk bearcomprehensionentrance Change image and share on social
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped. Avi begincrucialfind Change image and share on social
To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again. Ronald Kessler agentapplicantdetector Change image and share on social
To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear. Enrico Caruso cornerearearth share on social
To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona. Beverly D'Angelo beginendpersona Change image and share on social
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel. Julian Baggini acceptendorsefeel Change image and share on social
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will. Matthew Davis believedisillusiongod share on social
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher mannaturepractice Change image and share on social