Martha Beck Quotes

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Martha Beck

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• Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Boundaries

• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

  

  Weegee
  • People
  • Moment
  • Wait

• It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Difference
  • Got

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Happiness
  • Rich
  • Become

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• 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

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • True
  • House
  • Always

• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Business
  • Law
  • Community

• It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.

  

  Fábio Moon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Career
  • Choices
  • Intentions

• Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Water
  • Walking
  • Creativity

• Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

  

  Martin Villeneuve
  • Creativity

• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Work
  • Different
  • Career

• Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Creativity