Epictetus Quotes

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

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• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Way
  • Best
  • Three

• We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Career
  • Want
  • Girl

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • You
  • Take

• I know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I'm pretty sure he's still Mormon. I left the church long ago.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Church

• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

  

  Paul Valery

• If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

  

  Bjorn Borg

• I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • People
  • History
  • Ugly

• I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

  

  Jon Hamm

• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Care

• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Matters
  • Discussion
  • Press

• I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.

  

  Lalo Schifrin
  • Music
  • School
  • Opera

• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Army
  • Conquer

• Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

  

  John Milton
  • Hearts
  • Willing
  • Conquer

• You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

  

  Epictetus
  • Conquer
  • Contest
  • Invincible