Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
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• Happiness is an inside job.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Job
  • Happiness
  • Inside

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • Power
  • Know

• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Living
  • Instruments

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Mad

• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • More
  • Rejoice

• If you have less weight, you have less strength.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • You
  • Strength
  • Weight

• At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Growth
  • Company
  • Marketing

• I think there is a real art to walkabouts.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Real
  • Art
  • Think

• I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Know
  • Party
  • Independent

• When you approach others in judgement they will be on the defensive. When you are able to approach them in a kindly, loving manner without judgement they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Judge

• Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You're going, too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?" "No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?" Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Today

• Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Stills
  • Courses
  • Screws

• When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.

  

  Kevin Peter Hall
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • California

• It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca