Margaret Mead Quotes

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Truth
  • Proud
  • Speak

• I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • House
  • Faith

• I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Woman

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Time

• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Twins

• Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Peace

• I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

  

  Peter Carey
  • People
  • Life

• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

  

  Margaret Mead
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  • Humanity