Epictetus Quotes
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
Quotes to Explore
-
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
-
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
-
Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
-
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
-
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
-
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
-
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
-
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
-
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
-
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
-
The Melvins are grunge.
-
Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
-
Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
-
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
-
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
-
We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
-
I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
-
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
-
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-
When you have no control on your emotions. Now, this is dilemma.
-
Decisions exist only in the present.
-
When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
-
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
