Top 100 Quotes About Being More
#1. Being more aware will enable you to have only astonishing impressions, avoiding any of the disappointing experiences like some of those we went through.
Sahara Sanders
#2. My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.
Rosanna Pansino
#3. It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.
Flora Thompson
#4. None of what's become of me was Seattle's fault. Well, it might be Seattle's fault. The people are pretty boring. But let's withhold final judgment until I start being more of an artist and less of a menace.
Maria Semple
#5. Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.
Ruth Rendell
#7. While a Sagittarian tends to be candid, there's also a part of them that could be described as being more devious than Pisces, more deceptive than Gemini and more carnal than Scorpio.
Rosemary Breen
#8. I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
Robin Sloan
#9. I might not be able to...identify half the objects in my Inheritance, or fight as well as the others. But at least I'm good at coaxing jerks into being more personable. I wonder if that's a Legacy.
Pittacus Lore
#10. The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
Chuck Close
#11. Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.
Jonathan Rauch
#12. There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.
Jamie Hyneman
#13. Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
Ron Moody
#14. I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
Tom Petty
#15. If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available.
Margot Livesey
#16. In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
Cynthia Breazeal
#17. There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.
Shirley Jones
#18. The combination of being more deliberate about what you want, more clear about what you intend, and more sensitive to the way you feel is, in essence, what the Deliberate Creative Process is all about.
Esther Hicks
#19. It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.
Louis Berkhof
#20. One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative.
Jesse Thompson
#21. There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.
Tavis Smiley
#22. The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
Wilferd Peterson
#23. I really believe in the value of just being more present with the people you're around.
Clayton Snyder
#24. This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
Adam Nicolson
#25. If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
#26. Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.
Steven Johnson
#27. I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
Billy Corgan
#28. I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior
#29. Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
Diane Sawyer
#30. Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
Lisa See
#31. England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
John Cleese
#32. Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.
Keith Rabois
#33. I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together.
Tom Glavine
#34. I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.
Lauren Mayberry
#35. I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.
Hillary Clinton
#36. I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
Hill Harper
#37. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Brian Cox
#38. You can't win by being more average than average.
Seth Godin
#39. There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
David Rakoff
#40. I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.
Chris O'Donnell
#41. In many ways, the cycle of violence in Silo Eighteen was no different than what took place elsewhere. Beyond being more severe, it was the same waxing and waning of the mobs, of each generation revolting against the last, a fifteen-to-twenty-year cycle of bloody upheaval. Victor
Hugh Howey
#42. It's sad to think how humanity has been reduced to being more comfortable communing through the medium of a keyboard, rather than having a real life conversation.
L. H. Cosway
#43. I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.
Thomas Harris
#44. What do you can't do?
...
Be supportive?
...
You have never been supportive..
...
Being more serious?
...
Nice question... good POV... but as for you it's not possible more likely impossible..
Deyth Banger
#45. For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question
Rick Yancey
#46. When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.
David Rolf
#47. It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.
Rick Warren
#48. You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.
Martin Amis
#49. And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.
Walter Dean Myers
#50. Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.
Trevor Hammack
#51. If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian Ferneyhough
#52. No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual ...
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.
Deborah Meier
#54. To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients.
John M. Poothullil
#55. I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#56. If you write literary fiction that's set partly in the future, you're apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives.
Emily St. John Mandel
#57. I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.
Marilynne Robinson
#58. Male and female friends are always only just-the-tip away from being more.
Rachel Robinson
#59. Because never had I hated another human being more than I hated Paratore in that moment.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#60. For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Ornette Coleman
#61. With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.
Matt Mullenweg
#62. What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
Patricia Millett
#63. Imagine what it would be like if we all saw each other as being more similar rather than different - how much less effort and energy would be spent on protecting ourselves and how much more fulfilling our interactions would be with each other.
Clifford Michaels
#64. Trevor, remember a man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have, it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.
Trevor Noah
#65. I don't know, Mom. Now that I'm about to graduate, I plan on being more spontaneous."
Mom opened her eyes and burst out laughing.
I said, "Got spontaneity on the calendar for next Tuesday.
Lara Avery
#66. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#67. I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
Christy Turlington
#68. The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.
M.I.A.
#69. There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
John Currin
#70. I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
James C. Maxwell
#71. He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer.
Larissa Ione
#72. And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#73. I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.
Andy Kindler
#74. There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
Hassanal Bolkiah
#75. I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.
RuPaul
#76. In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others ...
John Stuart Mill
#77. We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more ... .
Dalai Lama XIV
#78. It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty is of no consequence because so many imbeciles share it.
Albert Camus
#79. Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
Laini Taylor
#80. People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
Alan W. Watts
#81. I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#82. I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.
Princess Diana
#84. If it were that important, SHIELD would have sent me." "Remember that conversation we had about being more supportive?" "Sorry.
Chelsea Cain
#85. The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
Art Spiegelman
#86. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts
#87. My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
Scott McCloud
#88. Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.
Raquel Cepeda
#89. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.
Alice Munro
#90. I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.
CeeLo Green
#91. Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
Oprah Winfrey
#92. One of the best ways to [improve my longevity] that is to minimize injury or avoid it by being more flexible-especially when we are meeting at the net. There is a hitter and blocker, which means a lot foot contact, where you can twist your ankle easily.
Karch Kiraly
#93. I don't really think of myself as an inspirational person.
Instead, I tend to think of myself as being more like one of those guys standing on a busy street corner, twirling a a big pointed arrow.
Except that my sign points toward Heaven.
Jose N. Harris
#94. Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.
Meher Baba
#95. People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on ... ' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on ... ' I actually haven't seen any of my movies in a long time. Being more self-aware now, and being an adult, I'm a little bit embarrassed to watch them.
Joseph Mazzello
#96. Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
Ram Dass
#97. I can't imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.
Sam Zell
#98. We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.
Pico Iyer
#99. I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts - no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous.
Ian Rankin
#100. Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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