Events Quote by Epictetus Download Open image “What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Judgment Mind People Problem Psychology
What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else. — David Allen Copy Share Image
The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments. — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“a past incident is not what agitates the mind; it is the amount of attention we give it that unsettles us.” — Shubha Vilas Copy Share Image
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
“You are biased to overestimate the emotional impact of future events.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.” — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
