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
  • Want
  • Career
  • 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

• If I look at the mass I will never act.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Look
  • Act

• The view, that Christ was not by nature divine but was adopted to be God’s son, emerged not out of Jewish Christianity, but from purely gentile stock. This was a group known as the Theodotians, named after their founder, a shoemaker, who happened also to be an amateur theologian, named Theodotus. Since they were centered in Rome, scholars sometimes refer to this group as the Roman Adoptionists.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christ
  • Christianity
  • Adopted

• Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Country
  • History
  • Threats

• The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Seed

• My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Life
  • Skinny
  • Self-Conscious

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

  

  Epictetus
  • Conquer
  • Contest
  • Invincible