Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Present

• I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Father
  • Simple

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Thought

• There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • May
  • Simple
  • Sometimes

• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Media

• The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Values
  • Republican

• There's no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Balance

• The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won. Nor can it be won cheaply, as the taxpayer is learning.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Peace
  • Learning

• You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Pretty
  • Law
  • Simple

• The United States has never prioritized or failed to pay any obligation when due during a debt limit impasse. Despite the institutional risks and the lack of clear legal authority, we assume that Treasury will attempt to prioritize payments in a last-ditch effort to avoid default.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Effort

• Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Effort

• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Evil
  • Effort

• Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

  

  Luis von Ahn
  • People
  • Team
  • Nice

• The possibility of collusion between Trump's allies and Russian intelligence is much more serious than Watergate. It is a constitutional crisis. It represents a violation of our republic's most sacred trust.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Trust
  • Serious
  • Trump

• There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Eyes
  • Partisan
  • Bipartisan

• When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if not in body.

  

  Ellen MacArthur
  • Mind
  • Team
  • Alone

• When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Simple
  • Effort
  • Values