Bernard Beckett Quotes

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

Bernard Beckett

• Future
• Fear
• Confidence
• Curiosity

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Like
  • Bread
  • Turkey

• I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• You're gifted to do something.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • You
  • Something
  • Gifted

• Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Faith

• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

  

  Margaret Hamburg
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Family

• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Happy
  • Fear
  • Dying

• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Me

• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Confidence