I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are...
MARTHA STEWART Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
MARTHA STEWART I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don'...
MARTHA STEWART I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
MARTHA STEWART In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adap...
MARTHA STEWART I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing....
MARTHA STEWART All the things I love is what my business is all about.
MARTHA STEWART Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, ...
MARTHA STEWART Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encourageme...
MARTHA STEWART I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the ...
MARTHA STEWART There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who ...
MARTHA STEWART Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, ...
MARTHA STEWART Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old ...
MARTHA STEWART If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
MARTHA STEWART So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
MARTHA STEWART The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
MARTHA STEWART I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed ...
MARTHA STEWART I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not importan...
MARTHA STEWART I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answe...
MARTHA STEWART I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top...
MARTHA STEWART My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
MARTHA STEWART I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get al...
MARTHA STEWART Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
MARTHA STEWART You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...
MARTHA STEWART I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
MARTHA STEWART I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
MARTHA STEWART I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine wit...
MARTHA STEWART I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
MARTHA STEWART I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in ho...
MARTHA STEWART You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, ...
MARTHA STEWART The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little hou...
MARTHA STEWART It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte,...
MARTHA STEWART I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many...
MARTHA STEWART My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' w...
MARTHA STEWART I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths...
MARTHA STEWART Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
MARTHA STEWART I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.
MARTHA STEWART I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
MARTHA STEWART We go through a rigorous vetting process of products before they even get to Martha.
MARTHA STEWART The letter is so mean-spirited and reckless that I almost can't believe my longtime friend Donald Tr...
MARTHA STEWART Because they are generated in what may seem to be a very comfortable setting, the frequent candor ha...
MARTHA STEWART The queen ruled once from her castle,
MARTHA STEWART When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They...
MARTHA STEWART I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and...
MARTHA STEWART I'm a maniacal perfectionist.
MARTHA STEWART You can't take the heat. Get out of the kitchen!
MARTHA STEWART What was a small personal matter became, over the last two years, an almost fatal circus of unpreced...
MARTHA STEWART It's a totally different feel,
MARTHA STEWART I have done nothing wrong.
MARTHA STEWART I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most imp...
MARTHA STEWART The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a ...
MARTHA STEWART My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
MARTHA STEWART Charles is a great dancer — he's never danced quite like that before.
MARTHA STEWART I have been so much looking forward to starting anew this September. We've been working very hard to...
MARTHA STEWART I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
MARTHA STEWART Am I the same girl? Yes, I am, ... Although I have changed.
MARTHA STEWART I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
MARTHA STEWART If possible, include any memorable experiences you have had with me to explain the basis of any expr...
MARTHA STEWART I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some ne...
MARTHA STEWART You can't let that get to you because then, again, your functionality, your daily chores can't get d...
MARTHA STEWART [In an open letter that appears in the front of the book, editor-in-chief Margaret Roach reminds rea...
MARTHA STEWART I later denied any wrongdoing in public statements and in voluntary interviews with prosecutors, ......
MARTHA STEWART [With her new shows, Stewart intends to capitalize on the former, and dispense once and for all with...
MARTHA STEWART Quitters? Forget it... I don't think I've ever quit a job... I've gone through JAIL, I could have wh...
MARTHA STEWART Without the stay, her appeal would have been meaningless.
MARTHA STEWART Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool...
MARTHA STEWART Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the...
MARTHA STEWART I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie...
MARTHA STEWART For styling, I don't like a lot of mousse. I do use Sally Hershberger's Texture Blast, which...
MARTHA STEWART One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside fr...
MARTHA STEWART Yeah, I wrote them,
MARTHA STEWART Charles brings the expertise of a legendary entrepreneur to the conference room each week.
MARTHA STEWART That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I thin...
MARTHA STEWART The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business,
MARTHA STEWART Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encour...
MARTHA STEWART You're a psychotherapist? ... What made you go into that field?
MARTHA STEWART It's totally out of desire and totally out of belief that - not that I am essential, but that I am s...
MARTHA STEWART We're back on track.
MARTHA STEWART (The contestants are) going to get real business lessons, real business advice and, day in and day o...
MARTHA STEWART I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
MARTHA STEWART You can't be sorry for something that let's see, how can I say this? I'm on appeal, ... You don't ap...
MARTHA STEWART We want people to see what real business is really like,
MARTHA STEWART I think I've banned couches from the set.
MARTHA STEWART I am incredibly impressed with this cast,
MARTHA STEWART I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basicall...
MARTHA STEWART We're not going to try to avoid things,
MARTHA STEWART What the heck are girls walking around in Dutch outfits selling tulips... what do they have to do wi...
MARTHA STEWART No one knows me better than Alexis and she understands my way of conducting business and dealing wit...
MARTHA STEWART [Speaking of her stint this summer taping] The Apprentice, ... I had a great experience.
MARTHA STEWART [When everyone was dwelling on Stewart going to prison, Burnett was plotting the future and approach...
MARTHA STEWART I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
MARTHA STEWART I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I...
MARTHA STEWART I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
MARTHA STEWART I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
MARTHA STEWART A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like...
MARTHA STEWART My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in ...
MARTHA STEWART The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
MARTHA BECK There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
MARTHA WASHINGTON Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, fr...
MARTHA BECK Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, fr...
MARTHA BECK Every day brings new choices.
MARTHA BECK If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort requir...
MARTHA HUNT Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and sta...
MARTHA GELLHORN The only sin is mediocrity.
MARTHA GRAHAM One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the ups...
MARTHA BECK Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making u...
MARTHA BECK To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit...
MARTHA BECK Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people k...
MARTHA BECK There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...
MARTHA GRAHAM All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting ti...
MARTHA BECK There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...
MARTHA GRAHAM All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...
MARTHA GRAHAM I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...
MARTHA GRAHAM There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...
MARTHA GRAHAM There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM Dance is the hidden language of the soul
MARTHA GRAHAM I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve stea...
MARTHA GRIMES The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers ...
MARTHA GELLHORN America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of...
MARTHA GRAHAM We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
MARTHA GRIMES I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
MARTHA GELLHORN Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.
MARTHA BECKMAN Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political comm...
MARTHA NUSSBAUM The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I a...
MARTHA BECK If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already ...
MARTHA BECK Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your per...
MARTHA BECK Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven...
MARTHA BECK Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first ...
MARTHA BECK In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brain...
MARTHA BECK The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned...
MARTHA WASHINGTON When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense percepti...
MARTHA BECK I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see our...
MARTHA GRAHAM If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calori...
MARTHA BECK 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAM Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't ...
MARTHA BECK Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
MARTHA BECK When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
MARTHA BECK The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical ap...
MARTHA BECK The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I pu...
MARTHA REEVES The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to cho...
MARTHA BECK Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just ...
MARTHA QUINN Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a...
MARTHA GRAHAM Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when...
MARTHA BECK Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned th...
MARTHA BECK Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAM Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need.
MARTHA MACHARIA Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in t...
MARTHA BECK Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned ...
MARTHA GELLHORN Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and ...
MARTHA BECK People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
MARTHA BECK Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at hum...
MARTHA BECK What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but withou...
MARTHA BECK When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread f...
MARTHA BECK Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attract...
MARTHA BECK I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive th...
MARTHA REEVES All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. Peopl...
MARTHA BECK It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
MARTHA GELLHORN Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most ...
MARTHA BECK It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. W...
MARTHA PLIMPTON Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd ...
MARTHA BECK Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged fro...
MARTHA BECK Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't...
MARTHA BECK No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ...
MARTHA BECK I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave somethi...
MARTHA HUNT Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies sho...
MARTHA BECK My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to...
MARTHA BECK Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely ...
MARTHA BECK We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...
MARTHA GRAHAM Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...
MARTHA GRAHAM I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
MARTHA PLIMPTON If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found i...
MARTHA MCSALLY Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
MARTHA ROBY A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the ...
MARTHA BECK Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
MARTHA MCSALLY Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from...
MARTHA BECK