Martha Beck Quotes

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

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• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Good
  • Men
  • Changes

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Just
  • Director
  • One Thing

• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Want
  • Goals

• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Time
  • May
  • Space

• The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Questions
  • Personal

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Girlfriend

• If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Idol

• I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Great
  • Need
  • Accountability

• I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Power
  • Society
  • Reading

• Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Opportunity

• I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Learn
  • Afraid
  • Coaches

• When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Up
  • America
  • Circle

• I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Great
  • House
  • Relationship

• I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• Everything happens for me, not to me.

  

  Byron Katie

• The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

  

  Li Na

• One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Husband

• Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

  

  Martha Beck