- Best
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- 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
- Doodle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always strive to receive the loudest reaction that I can; whether that is being booed out of the building or being cheered.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
- Freer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just go out there and play. I don't know if it's being young and not getting calls, or some other circumstances. I'm just trying to make a play.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like the Internet has transformed the media industry or the e-commerce industry, the software industry is also being affected dramatically by the Internet.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020