Epictetus Quotes
We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.
Epictetus
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
Fiona Apple
The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
Walt Mossberg
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Joanne Rowling
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Confucius
The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
John Burnside
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare
Vidi e conobbi l'ombra di coluiche fece per viltade il gran rifiuto.
Dante Alighieri
A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.
Norm Crosby
We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.
Epictetus