To Be Something Quotes
Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.
If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.
I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something
There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.
All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.
This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.
Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.
If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.
I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.
I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.
" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.
Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.
I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.
Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.
In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.
When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.