"Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming,……" — Margaret Mead
"Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble."
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Margaret Mead
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162 Quotes by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead has 162 quotes on this site.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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