Epictetus Quotes

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

Epictetus

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Money
  • Man

• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Comedy

• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Picture
  • Son

• Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Heaven

• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Popular

• I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Dad

• I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's.

  

  Gotye
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Law
  • Moral

• Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

  

  Peter Agre
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Innocent

• Broke is a Hollywood term!

  

  David Geffen

• Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

  

  Joan Baez
  • World
  • Job

• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence

• Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • People
  • True
  • Reality

• Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Remember
  • Quality

• I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Teenager
  • Lie
  • My Mother

• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Fate
  • Admiration

• Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Man
  • Limitations
  • Self-Satisfaction

• You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Money
  • Acceptance
  • Privilege

• Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

  

  Epictetus
  • Admiration
  • Self-Satisfaction
  • Enthusiasms