Meghan Daum Quotes

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

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• Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Tales

• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • War
  • Me
  • Amazing

• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • War
  • Like

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Kids
  • Arts
  • Income

• To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

  

  Allen Klein

• The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Break

• I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Trying
  • Together

• I've definitely learned that if you really want something, just go for it, no matter how much it scares you.

  

  Bethany Mota

• We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Work
  • Giving