Martha Beck Quotes

Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveYourselfIdeasHurtYouBody

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

Robert Laurent

GoalsImportantClubPassScore

I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.

Matthew Stewart

PhilosophyDegreePreciseGerman

I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building.

Robert A. Schuller

PeopleBuildingSurviveThink

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Roger Zelazny

DayDownThreeTryWriteSit

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

Lorraine Bracco

LifeMeMy LifeUnderstandNever

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

Jonny Lee Miller

GreatPeopleNightStartEvening

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Dick Durbin

HomePoliticsPartyStateOur

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Clifton Fadiman

WineNeverBottleLoverMetShared

I had an old, red-covered '63 AC30 - one of the best AC30s I've ever heard. I cut the whole of the first record with it.

Brad Paisley

BestOldFirstCutWholeEver

Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York.

Arca

New YorkBornNewProjectOutAfter

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Peter Stone

ManLawThreeBecomeMoreUseless

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Peter Doig

SpacePaintingThinkYouComfortable

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