Epictetus Quotes

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

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• The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Unity
  • Been
  • Strangers

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Audience

• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Eye

• A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Past

• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Like

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Like

• We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood - but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • May
  • Kids
  • Parents

• You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Dog

• We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going to be a great movie.' I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, 'What lines don't work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren't good? If you're not getting it, here's what the joke is.' You fix it.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Jesus
  • Accepting
  • Extraordinary

• Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Knowing
  • Looking
  • Youth

• Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

  

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