Martha Beck Daily Quotes

#1. follows: to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself. If

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

Ron Perlman

#3. That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

Dean F. Wilson

#4. I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Mos Def

#5. Do you think I lie to you?
No.
But you think I might lie to you about dying.
Yes.
Okay. I might. But we're not dying.
Okay.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

James P. Gorman

#7. Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

Martha Beck

#8. When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Frank Press

#9. Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bono

#10. To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.

Martha Beck

#11. I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.

Neal H. Moritz

#12. The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.

Pete Hamill

#13. You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Michael Tilson Thomas

#14. Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.

Rick Riordan