#being

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#design #ever #i #loved #making

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.' ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#born #course #everyone #few #knows

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#height #hounded #mccarthy #period #were

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it. ↗

— Robert Gould Shaw

#comes #i #instrument #like #lord

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#being #entailed #even #exactly #i

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#along #being #billion #few #get

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behaving #behavior #beings #complexity #environment

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#being #chance #going #good #good chance

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#being #chance #going #good #good chance

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better