Epictetus Quotes

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • People
  • Wish
  • Everyone

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Seek

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Night
  • Man
  • Wish

• I wish I could do 50 projects a year.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Wish
  • Year
  • I Wish

• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Change
  • Wish
  • Child

• My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Advice
  • Songs
  • Girls

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Business
  • Events
  • Improve

• My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Wish
  • Greatest
  • Cinema

• I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Game
  • Strong

• If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

  

  B. Traven
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Lies

• I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Good
  • Christians
  • Jews

• If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

  

  Epictetus
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