Marcus Aurelius Quotes

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

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• If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Free
  • You
  • Advice

• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
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  • Real
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
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• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Understanding
  • Step

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Stage
  • Naked

• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mind
  • Experiences
  • Someone

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

  

  Jay Leno
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money

• I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

  

  Diego Maradona
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Night
  • Free

• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us, neck and wrist. Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine, ere free we stand. As we builded, stone by stoene, We must toil, unhelped, alone, Till the wall is overthrown.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Hand

• To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Free