Epictetus Quotes

Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

Epictetus

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• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Completely

• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Father
  • Ear
  • Hank

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Learning
  • Worry
  • Picture

• Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Walking
  • Conservative
  • Suits

• Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.

  

  Warren G
  • Want
  • Look
  • Right

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost

• I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Theatre

• You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Learning

• The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Gay

• I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Power
  • Science
  • Proud

• I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • World
  • Wine

• The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Art
  • Funny

• If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Love
  • Always
  • Stage

• I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Challenge
  • Knowing
  • Watching

• I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Car
  • Choice
  • Ready

• In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hair
  • Thought
  • Red

• Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

  

  Epictetus
  • Watching
  • Triumphs
  • Merits