Martha Beck Quotes

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessFailureMistakesPeople

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Jenji Kohan

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I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Mel Tillis

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I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.

Maxine Kumin

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If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Robert Jeffress

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When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

Michael Douglas

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I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

John Rocha

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I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Amy Vanderbilt

I AmPeopleFindTryOutEtiquette

It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Acting doesn't suffice.

Rod Taylor

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Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Michael Leunig

TruthSometimesBehind

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

Lisa Murkowski

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Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Josh Lucas

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