Epictetus Quotes
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
Quotes to Explore
-
The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
-
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
-
We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
-
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
-
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
-
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
-
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
-
I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
-
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
-
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
-
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
-
Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
-
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
-
The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
-
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
-
In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
-
To have good energy policy we have to have good investments.
-
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.
-
Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.
-
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
