#being

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. ↗

— Scott Turow

#inventor #legal #me #people #talk

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#been #being #doing #enough #i

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#before #being #binds #body #bondage

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#being #fiction #human #human being

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#again #because #being #go #like

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#even #him #hold #ideas #lay

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#character #complex #compromised #contradictions #contradictory