Martha Beck Quotes
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.
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Conceptual graphs are system of logic based on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce and the semantic networks of artificial intelligence. The purpose of the system is to express meaning in a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally tractable.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.
