Epictetus Quotes

Appear to know only this,-never to fail nor fall.

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• It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Easy

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Child

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

  

  Oliver North
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • May
  • Truth
  • Fall

• First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

  Gail Devers
  • Life
  • Character
  • Strong

• I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Fall

• I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Learning

• The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Want
  • Best

• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Way
  • Fall

• My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Diaries

• If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • America
  • Reality
  • Movies

• According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Power
  • Monster
  • Legend

• Appear to know only this,-never to fail nor fall.

  

  Epictetus
  • Fall