Being Quotes
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I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.
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I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.
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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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If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
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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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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.
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There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.
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Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.
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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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My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
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I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.
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Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.
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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
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We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.
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Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.
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What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your 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.
