Mary Oliver Quotes

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1935

Topics

JobInterestingYouNeverTakeGet

Usually, nerds on TV are completely stereotypical, like Urkel, or they're not really so nerdy.

Jesse Plemons

NerdyNerdsLikeTVReally

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

John Berger

IntelligenceImpossibleThinkUnique

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

Srikumar Rao

DeepFeelCreateSatisfactionBurn

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Robert Browning

GodFightMeEndPrivacyWant

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

Robin DiAngelo

SocietyDoingInequalityMeanRacial

My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.

Mary Gordon

I AmPeopleSingingHusbandAmerican

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

Lois Capps

HealthAmericanWantNeedAwareness

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

Derek Jeter

GoodTimeFunHaving A Good TimeYou

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

Christian Louboutin

ShoesWalkLanguageDesignYouBody

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Clive Bell

MistakeClassLeisureBigCrowd

The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

Bradley Wiggins

TimeTeamLaughYouAthleteWay

First year in the league, it's going to be difficult.

Anthony Bennett

YearDifficultFirstGoingLeague

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