Martha Beck Quotes

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveFearFunSufferingChoicesNow

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Joey Skaggs

FoolCannotFooledWhoThinksHe

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

Jennifer Hyman

CultureYouGoStrikeKindMore

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

Maxine Peake

CharacterEgoThinkSometimesMore

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

BestSacrificeGiftAnythingGive

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.

Rob Sheffield

MusicRelationshipWorldBondOut

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Rita Dove

LifeCollegeWritingMoreWrite

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Juan Cole

LawBelieveAmericanSaidI Believe

My mother was a Jewish General Patton.

Don Rickles

MotherJewishGeneralPatton

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

WomenGreatMomCookWereSicilian

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Pico Iyer

LifeDayPeopleMeSpeakMy Life

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

Phil Gingrey

I AmPhysicianPoseOverYearsWell

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Pope Benedict XVI

TodayHopeGratitudeTimeSeedSame

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