#being

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#alone #beings #build #come #else

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#conscious #everywhere #jew #like #points

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#human #human being #i #i think #rarest

Being known for musicals is a great thing. ↗

— Zac Efron

#great #great thing #known #musicals #thing

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter. ↗

— Zac Efron

#applause #being #day #getting #got

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #books #built #i #i think

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#being #breath #centered #chance #comedy

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human being #known #morality #needs