Martha Beck Quotes

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Kind
  • Basketball
  • Pro

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • You
  • Going

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Great
  • Think
  • Kind

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Attitude

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Climate

• I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Positive

• The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press. (p. 106)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Stock

• 'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Powerful
  • Overcoming

• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Powerful

• When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting the most are not the economically powerful ones. They're not Sandra Fluke. They're not Lena Dunham, who conservatives hate more than anybody. They're hurting low-earning single mothers.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Powerful
  • Hurting
  • Conservatives

• Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Powerful
  • Caring