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've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise...
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a...
My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.
I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function properly if only one gender is rising. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There...
