"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."

-- Epictetus

#Philosophy Quotes #Humility Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?”
“I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.”
“The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.279, Harvard University Press
“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.”
“I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.”
“But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, letâ€™s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. Iâ€™ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then Iâ€™m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standardsâ€”and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”
“Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.”
“I'm lucky to have friends who inspire me all the time. Watching other people teaches me and helps me to carve out my own sound. We're all just recycling on our influences. What you hear is the sound of those artists swirling around our insides and finding their way back out somehow.”

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