To Be Something Quotes

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

Every year we find something new, we go faster, and that's what Formula One is about .

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I'd have to say the Seychelles, because I adore being in tropical places. However, Paris and Milan are also special to me. Every city has something special that attracts me.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.

Art always demands of us something new.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

I always knew I had something special.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

If we could combine Starbucks' spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.

Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.