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
  • You

• 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

• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Humanity

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• HIV/AIDS isn't a top priority for any of the three major LGBT groups in the U.S.: not the HRC, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), or the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) - who together are somewhat pejoratively known as 'Gay Inc.'

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Priority

• I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.'

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• I wanted the opportunity to work with Judy Davis and Simon Wincer.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Work
  • Opportunity

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

  

  Martha Beck