Marijane Meaker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
-- Marijane Meaker

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Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.
-- Marijane Meaker

#Long #Stranger
When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.
-- Marijane Meaker

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You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.
-- Marijane Meaker

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Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.
-- Marijane Meaker

#Responsibility #Morality #Responsible
We are what we are. We don't have to define it or label it.
-- Marijane Meaker

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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.
In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Great obstacles make great leaders.

Marijane Meaker famous quotes

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