Quotes about Being, page 2

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Quote by Hank Aaron about being

Anyone who rejects the humanitarian theory of brotherhood runs the risk of being accused of a lack of fraternal feeling.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about being

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about being

But as far as this stuff being really new, really different that's something else again. Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks.

Quote by Lester Bangs about being

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Quote by Lester Bangs about being

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Quote by Harold Bloom about being

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Quote by Paula Abdul about being

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Quote by Richard Bach about being

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Quote by Richard Bach about being

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Quote by Richard Bach about being

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about being

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Quote by Richard Bach about being

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Quote by Richard Bach about being

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about being

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Quote by Richard Bach about being

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about being

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about being

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about being

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

Quote by John Abizaid about being

I believe the president doesn't feel as though he's being attacked all of the time, if he's just being reasoned with.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about being