Martha Beck Quotes
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.Martha Beck
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
Gary Calamar -
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
Taylor Momsen -
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence -
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
Larry Brown -
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
J. Cole -
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
Dan Pink -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
Karl Pilkington -
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
Edith Head
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi -
We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
Cameron Winklevoss -
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu -
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek -
There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
Damian Lewis -
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Walter Isaacson
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You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.
Brian Perkins -
Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
Nancy Johnson -
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
Paulo Coelho -
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
Frances Burney -
I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.
Lili Reinhart -
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Martha Beck