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.
As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the...
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
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I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.
I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.
I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some...
For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.
I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.
You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.
The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.
If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
