Martha Beck Quotes

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

LifeChangeTrustFocusMindTough

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

Jerry West

I AmRootsBoyForgottenWestStill

I am a trained, professional stunt driver. I'm a great driver.

Andrea Parker

GreatI AmProfessionalDriverStunt

I like to keep people guessing.

Amanda Seyfried

PeopleGuessingKeepLike

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Stephen Greenblatt

FatherStoryLongLineTellPunch

Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.

Spike Jonze

BestWorld

I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

Sia

StarsWritingInternetFamousLook

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

David Strathairn

WorkGoodDayTeamSomeoneEnough

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

Christina Hendricks

ChangeThoughtCurvesYouLoseLook

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

Wolfgang Puck

ChefLearnYouNobodyNowTop

'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

Todd Haynes

EvilStuffSomeUnbelievableUrges

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

Tim Reid

PeopleBlackMoreQuestionFollow

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

Mario Andretti

DriveRememberRaceKidAnything

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