#being

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#alive #being #creative #great #happiness

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

#choice #concerned #determine #determined #excellence

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#conservative #erred #far #i #i think

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#i #inward #ivory #just #live

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it. ↗

— Armand Assante

#cursed #get #known #love #then

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#beings #bullet #comes #designed #evil

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #companies #different #ended #lot

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#benign #built #challenge #company #economic

I enjoy not being a public company. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#company #enjoy #i #public #public company

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #board #building #companies #company