Epictetus Quotes

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

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• Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Country
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Great
  • Care
  • End

• The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Real
  • More

• Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Style

• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Filled
  • Purse

• I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

  

  Andrew Davies

• As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time

• When I show up in New York, and I look at the skyline, it's like showing up in a mountain range. My gaze goes toward the most impressive-looking climb. It's always gone to the top of the World Trade Center.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up
  • World
  • Mountain

• The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

  

  Billy Dee Williams

• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  

  Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Forever
  • Wonder
  • Sea

• I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.

  

  George Ezra
  • People
  • Up
  • Picture

• You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Attention

• When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • People
  • House
  • Political

• I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through.

  

  Frankie Ballard

• Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

  

  Keren Ann
  • Up

• We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

  

  Mark Morris
  • People
  • Time

• The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Consequences
  • Impressions
  • Infancy

• Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Beautiful
  • Song
  • Poem

• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Me

• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Pride
  • Sense
  • Manners

• Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

  

  Epictetus
  • Impressions
  • Appearances
  • Coherence