Epictetus Quotes

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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• Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Jazz

• In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Important
  • Money
  • Day

• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Love
  • Heaven

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Women
  • Relationship

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Health
  • Authority
  • Modern

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Night
  • Single
  • Winning

• Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Taken

• I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Think
  • Cute
  • Cats

• Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

  Chaka Fattah
  • American
  • Poverty

• I'm sure my agents would like me to play leading roles, and I guess I should, but I'm more interested in the character parts. They're more fun, challenging and interesting.

  

  Lucy Punch
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...

  

  James Clavell
  • Power
  • Luck

• That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Wish

• The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Business
  • Parents

• Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

  

  Epictetus
  • Business
  • Concern
  • Focused