Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.
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Honestly, dialogue is a weird area for me. It just comes naturally; I know I'm quite good at it, but I can't actually tell you why or how in any detail.
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People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
