Tracey Gold Quotes

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

Tracey Gold

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YearDownOldYearsSelf-Esteem

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Jim Rohn

SuccessGoalsProgressPersonal

It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.

John C. Calhoun

WorkWisdomHistoryManGovernment

When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.

Meghan Daum

ThoughtYoungTalkDegreeWithout

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

Matthew Walker

WisdomScienceSleepThinkSmoking

I get treated like a princess in India. It is like a different world.

Amy Jackson

WorldIndiaPrincessGetDifferent

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

Amor Towles

LifeWisdomMeLateBloomHim

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

Tori Amos

PeopleThinkYouCareerSayWant

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

Robert Winston

GreatPeopleBelieveThinkUniverse

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Roland Barthes

LiteratureQuestionAnswerMinus

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Mary Renault

TrustPeopleHarvestSeeHowUnless

Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.

Michael Mina

FoodSoulMomSickSoupDiet

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Denis Waitley

PromisesWinnersAlwaysBreakLosers

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