Sharon Begley Quotes

Emerging evidence suggests that people who are suffering from depression are unable to recognize novelty.

Sharon Begley

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• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Men
  • Man
  • Black

• I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Drunk

• Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Life
  • Live
  • Success

• The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing

• You never find virtuosity for its own sake.

  

  Daniel Hope

• When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Team
  • Taken

• I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Up
  • Success

• I just am who I am.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Pain

• We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Addiction

• Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Writing
  • Political

• My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Risk
  • Balance

• If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

  

  Cybill Shepherd

• I am one of the guys that thinks you never have to give up. When you have that 'X' that says you're eliminated, then you give up. Not anybody in the league, not Kansas City, not Pittsburgh, has that 'X' that says they are eliminated. We're still fighting for something. We still have a chance to do a lot of things. We're still fighting for something. We still have a chance to do a lot of things.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Fighting
  • Guys
  • League

• I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • Passion

• There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Famous
  • Depression

• One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • America
  • Depression

• What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

  

  George Eliot
  • Loved
  • Novelty
  • Monotony

• Emerging evidence suggests that people who are suffering from depression are unable to recognize novelty.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Depression
  • Recognize
  • Novelty