Martha Beck Quotes

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ProblemsFriendsAppearanceStrangers

I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.

Joanna Going

EatingStrugglesJustIssuesSome

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

StartDecadeRightLittleFootLast

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.

Michael Greger

PinkRoutineMoreHumanChickens

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

John Terry

DailyTimeTrainingBattleYouBad

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

Metro Boomin

Growing UpBackGrowingUpRapBig

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Tony Curtis

GirlSonDaughterGreatLosing

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

Ronda Rousey

WorkGoodStandLearnYearLook

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

WorkFamilyEducationResponsibility

I'm used to hitch-hiking.

Joyce Banda

Used

When 'The People's Court' came along, I had an opportunity to really teach people about law. It was very important to me.

Joseph Wapner

OpportunityPeopleMeLawImportant

A lot of times in this business, we forget that we're surrounded by a lot of really good people.

Scooter Braun

GoodBusinessPeopleGood PeopleLot

One of the reasons I'm reluctant to start a novel is it's such an obsessive activity. You get in there, you don't know anything else while you're in there. And that's quite a sacrifice to make, especially for us old guys where time is kind of short. You don't want to disappear for a year; you want to be outdoors.

Thomas McGuane

TimeSacrificeStartOutdoorsShort

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