To Be Something Quotes

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

Not believing in something doesn't make it not exist.

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.

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.

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.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

We're waiting for something to change into something worth waiting for

When we have got it, we want something else.

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

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

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?

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.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.

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 not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

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.

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

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.