"To make an activity joyful, keep adding things……" — Martha Beck
"To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing."
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102 Quotes by Martha Beck
Martha Beck has 102 quotes on this site.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind…
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things.…
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives…
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in…
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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Every day brings new choices.
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More Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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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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One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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