#being

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. ↗

— Mos Def

#become #being #culture #drum #feel

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#bad #being #compassion #discriminated #ever

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#cities #collective #colony #coral #group

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store. ↗

— Joycelyn Elders

#being #black #clerk #clothing #doctor

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. ↗

— David Amram

#bach #being #chorale #four #going

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #destroyed #ecology #growing #growing up

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#being #big #change #change the world #dream

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#being #best #coach #created #existed

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#difficult #human #human beings #make #simple

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #being #complex #complexity #could