Martha Beck Quotes

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolParentsPressureAttention

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

Mayer Hawthorne

EducationMusicSoulParentsJazz

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

TruthDoorLookingYouGoSay

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

Amber Frey

GodMeEndKnowWhySee

I didn't want Ulta to be thought of as the retailer for discounts. I wanted Ulta to be known as a beauty retailer.

Mary Dillon

BeautyThoughtWantWantedKnown

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

Martin Seligman

LifeHopeI AmResearchWorldCare

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

Moby

LookRidiculousCourseSupermodel

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Dick Francis

ChildPeopleBackKnowYoungLiving

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

Antonis Samaras

TodayPathPeopleGreeceEuropean

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.

Alice Eve

ReflectionDayPainPeopleYouGo

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

Susana Martinez

CourageHistoryMeLittle GirlsLook

I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.

Peter Mayle

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I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

Sean Connery

LifeTimeBestMovingWorldForward

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