A Quote by Margaret Mead

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
American - Scientist
December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978

I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don't have a napkin.

Demetri Martin

You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student of Unity... As the Christ becomes greater to you in Unity, the Buddha also becomes greater, and the greater the Buddha becomes, the greater the Christ becomes.

James Marcus Bach

Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.

Mors Kochanski

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

Stephen Covey

I'm all about talent. I love talent and I want to work with as much great talent as possible. My job as editor in chief is making the most of everybody's talent and pulling that together into a format that's even better than an individual.

Glenda Bailey

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.

Jonathan Edwards

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

Galen Beckett

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Angelina Grimke

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

Daniel Handler

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

Steven Kotler

As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

Jo Bonner

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Franklin P. Jones

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

Mae West

In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

Jonah Goldberg

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

Leonard Sweet

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