To Be Something Quotes
It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.
Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery.... and then a meal.
The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.
He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.
In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?
I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.
Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.
... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.
I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.
Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.
It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.
Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.
I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.
Who doesn't love Game of Thrones? Sons of Anarchy is funny and thug-ish. I love Shameless. I just sit with my hat tipped, waiting for something to happen, more than going out after the shows.
There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.
When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.
A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.
In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.
If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.
You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."
I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.