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The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.
— Gabrielle Zevin
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
— Charles Babbage
It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.
— William B. Irvine
But why run? Run where? What's the point?Seems silly, running.
May as well stand here.
And wait.
The world seems slow. — Beth Revis
one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.
— William B. Irvine
It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
— John Travolta
Most of us are "living the dream" living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.
— William B. Irvine
Now let's each have a good tall drink to celebrate!
— Charles Bukowski
The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.
— Keeley Hawes
the easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.
— William B. Irvine
reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.
— William B. Irvine
Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won't be able to fulfill.
— William B. Irvine
Epictetus echoes this advice: We should keep in mind that "all things everywhere are perishable.
— William B. Irvine
One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted.
— William B. Irvine
use our reasoning ability to drive away "all that excites or affrights us.
— William B. Irvine
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
— Laurence Olivier
We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.
— William B. Irvine
Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3
— William B. Irvine
That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
— Patricia Cornwell
When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.
— William Braxton Irvine
How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question.
— William B. Irvine
Indeed, anger can be thought of as anti-joy.
— William B. Irvine