Martha Beck Quotes
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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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.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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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.
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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.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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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.
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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.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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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.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
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Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
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When we were associated with eBay, it was surprising to me how many merchants were very reluctant to work with PayPal because we were accessing their data and their information, and they felt in some way, shape, or form they were competing with eBay.
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
