Epictetus Quotes

And are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems that there is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking. (81).

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• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

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• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

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• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

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• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

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• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

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• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

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• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

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• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

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• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

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• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

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• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

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• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

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• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

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• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

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• Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

  

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• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

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• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

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• I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.

  

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• I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

  

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• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

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• I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

  

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  

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• And are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems that there is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking. (81).

  

  Epictetus
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