- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
- Broadway Musicals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent is being able to please people.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020