Epictetus Quotes

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Player
  • End
  • Doing

• We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Act
  • Crisis
  • Recovery

• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Childhood

• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Born
  • Paris

• Some day I shall be President.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Day
  • President
  • Some

• Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Feel

• This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Together

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity

• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Alone
  • Struggle
  • Leaving

• My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Serious

• They pried into the most secret recesses, ransacked every depository of papers, broke open every lock, and enjoyed the twofold gratification of curiosity and destruction.

  

  Louis Adolphe Thiers
  • Destruction
  • Broke
  • Pried

• As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Nice

• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play; civilizations emerged next to rivers in China, India, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They sustain life and bring death and destruction. They are ferocious at times; gentle at times. They are placid and mean. They trigger conflict and delineate boundaries. Rivers are the stuff of metaphor and fable, painting and poetry. Rivers unite and divide - a thread that runs from source to exhausted release.

  

  Edward Gargan
  • Death
  • Interesting
  • Rivers

• I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Experience
  • Beat
  • Work Hard

• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

  

  Epictetus