Be You Quotes (page 127)

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• free
• world
• worldly

You have to be free to fail in this world. J. K. Rowling

• art
• money
• wonder

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. Seth Godin

• good
• ignorance
• ignored

Be so good they can't ignore you. Steve Martin

• feeling
• surprise
• physics

You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. Brian Greene

• superman
• wanted
• who

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent Leonard Cohen

• jury
• judges
• judge and jury

You can twist perceptionreality won"t budgeyou can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury Neil Peart

• learning
• wise
• view

You never speak about yourself without loss. Your self-condemnation is always accredited, your self-praise discredited. There may be some people of my temperament, I who learn better by contrast than by example, and by flight than by pursuit. This was the sort of teaching that Cato the Elder had in view when he said that the wise have more to learn from the fools than the fools from the wise; and also that ancient lyre player who, Pausanias tells us, was accustomed to force his pupils to go... Michel de Montaigne

• fitness
• may
• part

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit. Frank Sinatra

• soul
• soulfulness
• keep

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. Mark Twain

• parents
• time
• good

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. Orson Scott Card

• innocent
• book
• new

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files. Nikki Sixx

• winter
• heart
• survives

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive. Rainer Maria Rilke

• women
• consider
• knowing

You know I've always considered women to be people. George R. R. Martin

• caring
• carefulness
• skateboard

You can't be careful on a skateboard. Stephen King

• kindness
• caring
• about

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. Bruce Springsteen