Being Quotes

I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?