- Better
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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
- Far Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of those who had taken them, being at the end of 6 days fit for duty.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020