Be Kind Quotes

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing.

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

There is no security as undemanding and comfortable as the kind you feel among friends.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.

I’m lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I’m working or whether I’m playing.

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.