- Business
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fed up with being just plain Jane.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The DREAMers who are in my state are some of the most ambitious, creative, going to be productive businesspeople and doctors. That's why I'm proud of being the first governor to make sure the DREAMers get access to college education.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it was a way of being able to watch my idols or people I admired play football on television.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love visiting schools - in fact, that's my favorite part of being an author now - even though I still get stage fright! When I visit schools, I know I'm going to be talking to some kids who don't like to read.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020