To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
‐‐ Larry Wall
To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.
‐‐ Blake Bailey
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
‐‐ Eli Pariser
To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.
‐‐ Thomas Brodie-Sangster
To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
‐‐ C. Thomas Howell
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
‐‐ John James Audubon
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
‐‐ James E. Faust
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
‐‐ Rogers Hornsby
To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.
‐‐ Roscoe Mitchell
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg
To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.
‐‐ Jill Hennessy
To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld
To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.
‐‐ Andy Grammer
To be a good producer, one needs to be able to eat lunch, and make ill-informed decisions.
‐‐ Cindy Morgan
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni
To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
‐‐ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
‐‐ Ludwig Bemelmans
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
‐‐ Johnathon Schaech
To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
‐‐ Ranbir Kapoor
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes
To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
‐‐ Scott Weiland
To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.
‐‐ Mark Lawrenson
To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.
‐‐ Leonard Lauder
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
‐‐ Octavio Paz
To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
‐‐ Simone Weil
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
‐‐ John Updike
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
‐‐ Alfred Adler
To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
‐‐ David Novak
To be a Jew is a destiny.
‐‐ Vicki Baum
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
‐‐ Elizabeth I
To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
‐‐ Joe Namath
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
‐‐ Christopher Lee
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
‐‐ Ozzy Osbourne
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
‐‐ Doug Liman
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
‐‐ Cesar Chavez
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
‐‐ Elia Kazan
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd
To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen
To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh
To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
‐‐ Sade Adu