Rachel Cusk Quotes

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Rachel Cusk

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• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Energy

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I love parties. I love a good time.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parties

• I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Smile
  • Nervous
  • Friendliness

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • True
  • Water

• I apply to you to come and hear that you are in evil case; that what deserves your attention most is the last thing to gain it; that you know not good from evil, and are in short a hapless wretch; a fine way to apply! though unless the words of the Philosopher affect you thus, speaker and speech are alike dead. (120).

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • Words
  • Attention

• I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Song
  • Person
  • Loved

• I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Sanctions should be reserved, if we think international, for extremely serious situations.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Serious

• My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Power