Martha Beck Quotes
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.Martha Beck
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso -
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Naoto Kan -
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
Sam Harris -
I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
Hanneli Mustaparta -
I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
Rand Paul
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
Dan Quayle -
Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
Gary Jennings -
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron -
Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
Rachel Sklar -
We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
Val Kilmer
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After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
Zachary Knighton -
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
Orson Scott Card -
Whatever we areWe belong togetherWherever we areWe will find each otherWhoever we areWe areForever one.
Leonard Nimoy -
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
Alva Myrdal
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America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.
Jim Ratcliffe -
But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
Nancy Mitford -
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Jerome K. Jerome -
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
Ricky Jay -
Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.
Anthony Ray Hinton -
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
Martha Beck