"Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing……" — Epictetus
"Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty"
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to…
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I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by…
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself.…
— Ken Dryden
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things…
— Bill Russell
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
— John Sebastian
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Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and…
— David A. Bednar
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Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach…
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
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