To Be Something Quotes

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.

A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

We get dopamine in the brain when we like something a lot. Well, cellphones stimulate dopamine, too. So it really is the case that there are some people who are pretty addicted to these devices.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

That looks like something out of the dumpster of planned parenthood.

Trends don't mean anything to me. If I like something, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't do it, and I wouldn't care if everybody in the country mocked me.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.