Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.
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We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
