Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

  

  Daniel Bell
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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.

  

  M. John Harrison
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• Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
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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.

  

  Albert Bandura
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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.~

  

  Uma Thurman
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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.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Great
  • May
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• In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
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• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

  

  E. B. White
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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.

  

  S.C. Stephens
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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.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
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  • Society
  • Talking

• 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?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Book
  • House
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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

  

  William Shakespeare
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• After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

  

  Brian Tracy
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• I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Laugh

• How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, "Here's what it takes to succeed. Here's the sacrifices you need to make to be able to get ahead. Here's how we support each other. Here's how we look out for each other."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kids
  • American
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• We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Asks
  • Pleasant