To Be Something Quotes

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Somebody is always hiding something.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.

My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.

I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

Each of us can do something to help someone.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.