Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
- Topic: Action, Leadership
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More Quotes from Epictetus
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
