Being Quotes

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.

For material progress and physical well being, peace of mind is of utmost importance.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

A lot of the hot music today comes from what's being done in R&B and hip-hop.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

Once you act with someone, who gives you so much to feed off of, you just have to be there and be yourself, and it comes out.

Being sexy doesn't mean you shouldn't be safe.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

Success is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

To be honest I always have to say no one is guiding me better than God

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real

Remember to be yourself and remember throughout everything why you first wanted to do this.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.