Being Quotes
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.
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Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.
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I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
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I was just 18 years old, excited about being drafted to the N.B.A. I felt like all of Houston was watching me. My high school was watching me. I think they had a draft party at my coach's house. I'll never forget that day, being in the green room with my family and my agent.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
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My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
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I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.
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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.
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Major labels don't play with samples not being cleared.
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The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.
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And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?
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I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.
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Consciousness is an electrical phenomenon which arises from a state of being which we can feel.
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Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.
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I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
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The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.
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Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
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Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.
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I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day is a dark lonely field and the urunj of a car, and a large stick and a roll of duct tape! My MOM shops at Wal-Mart! She gets calls all the time now; she's worried about me! I'm not the most emotionally stable guy in the world; I'll admit that... I do have some problems, but my God, I'm not a murderer!
