Epictetus Quotes

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

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• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  

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• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

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• Badminton is not a popular sport in India.

  

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• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

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• You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

  

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• I'm not a good guitar player.

  

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• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

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• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

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• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

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• The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

  

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• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

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• I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

  

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• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

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• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  

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• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

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• And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

  

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• Sometimes I am screwing around, and sometimes I get way too serious, but I am a pretty sincere person.

  

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• As our inclinations, so our opinions.

  

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• I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."

  

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
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• What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Things
  • Opinions
  • Disturbs