Martha Beck Quotes

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Focus
  • Same
  • Author

• I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Find

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Father
  • Think
  • Son

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Name
  • Own

• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Source
  • Pursuit

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Age
  • Sons
  • Illegitimate

• I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Career

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Nothing

• There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Reason

• I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of age discrimination to them when they practice it.

  

  Nick Corcodilos
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Job market

• It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

  

  Errol Morris
  • Fame
  • Connected
  • Merit

• We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Thinking
  • Age