Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
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I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.
We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.
Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.
Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It's no longer two people. It's two people squared.
I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
The biggest thing is being a man of your own time, combining craft with the graft, creating your own opportunities.
I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.
There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.
All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre.
Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
