Epictetus Quotes
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
Epictetus
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
Jack Nicklaus
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
Laura Marling
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
Laura San Giacomo
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
Randy Johnson
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
Imelda Marcos
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
Samantha Morton
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
Gabrielle Reece
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
Rachel Kushner
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I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
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Making music you can dance to is very important to me. I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that’s a very natural thing to do.
Jain
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
M.I.A.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
Epictetus
