Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Seneca the Younger

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• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

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• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

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• There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

  

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• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

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• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

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• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

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• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

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• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

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• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  

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• We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

  

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• A film of my life would never happen!

  

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• Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

  

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• Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

  

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• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

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• Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.

  

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• The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

  

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• Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.

  

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• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

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• A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

  

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• Many of us find numerous ways to avoid or put off altering the balance between nourishing and depleting activities in our lives; usually for very solid-sounding and altruistic reasons. Some may say, for example: “I’m balancing being a mom, a career woman, a wife and a homemaker. Where do I find the time for myself?” Others will point to the large projects at work or home, and say, “Not now, not yet; maybe some day—when this project is finished.” On the surface, this approach seems reasonable; but try to see if it is possible to take the long view. In time, if we don’t rebalance our lives, we will become less effective at everything we do. We will become joyless, sleepless and witless.

  

  Mark Williams
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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • May
  • Return