Being Quotes

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I like being misunderstood.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.