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.
Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these...
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Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
You know, it sounds a little, it sounds bad, but… I love being touted as being aggressive.
Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's...
Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat...
I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.
