Epictetus Quotes
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.Epictetus
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
Lactantius -
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford -
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci -
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee -
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
Karlie Kloss -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal -
I just have an inability to lie.
Paloma Faith -
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
Caitlyn Jenner
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
Vanessa Minnillo -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
Carl Honore -
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk -
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale -
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
Dan Pink
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Music has its existence on the borderline between meaning and nonsense. That is why most attempts to attribute a specific meaning to a piece of music seem to be beside the point-even when the attribution is authoritative, even when it is made by the composer himself.
Charles Rosen -
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
James Mill -
It is very easy to get people focused on children.
John J. Mack -
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne -
RockNet Interview: Chris Cornell of Soundgarden (May 1, 1996).
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus