Margaret Mead Quotes

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978

Topics

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For me, I feel like I'm slowly accomplishing what I've always wanted to do. I've always dreamed really big, and my mom planted that in all three of my siblings: 'You guys can do anything.'

Jessie James Decker

MeMomFeelYouThreeAnything

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Jill Scott

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My favorite memories were with my dad, throwing a football around when he came home from work. As long as kids are having fun, that's the biggest deal at the end of the day.

Andrew Luck

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I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Maya Angelou

MyselfCreatedMuchTaught

My experience has been that military assessments on 'how goes the war' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.

Michael Hayden

ExperienceWarMoreMilitaryBeen

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

Sonakshi Sinha

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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Toni Morrison

WomenEqualityMeYouPersonalTwo

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Tom Rath

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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Robert Browning

TimeTogetherLovedPlaceNever

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.

Robin Marantz Henig

EnoughBiologyDownToo MuchPerson

When it comes to Nintendo products, I gotta go with the new stuff.

Brie Larson

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