A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.
You talk about meant to be – oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer.
Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.
I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.
That’s my number one thing I tell people: Be patient, because love comes to you naturally. Once you look for it, you choose the wrong person. Everything happens naturally; people come into your life when you’re ready. When it’s meant to be, it’s destined for it to happen, so you’re going to meet The One, one day.
Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that’s very clear.
I look at things as ‘Everything is meant to be.’
Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn’t know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.
Our big songs were all songs that were never meant to be.
I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I’m not that interested in entertainment.
When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Whenever I was alone while modeling overseas, I would always think about who I was and what it meant to be a human being and I personally think this is what eventually triggered my desire to act, and brought me to sign with my acting agency.
I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.
Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company – it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building.
Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
There is good in everything; it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model – I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
I’d like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation – more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.
Once you know something wasn’t right, whether it was your decision or not, now, you are where you’re meant to be.
Haverford was there for me and taught me what it meant to be a human being.
A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
I don’t know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn’t been like, ‘God, I hate them’ just under their breath. It’s not meant to be literal. It’s funny.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours.
I don’t think men were meant to be interviewed.
Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
I’m not one of those New Age types that believe ‘it’s all meant to be’ and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.
I feel powerful when I’m onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you’re meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.
And I’m not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they’re meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
I always believe you will end up where you are meant to be.
No matter what I do, I can’t help but feel that I’m under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny.
I love to read. And right now I’m on my last hundred pages of ‘The Corrections’ by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just – he’s one of those writers where you just go, ‘There are people just meant to be novel writers.’
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
