Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
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Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
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Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency.
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~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
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Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
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In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.
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Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
