Lao Tzu Quotes

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Given
  • Credit

• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Time
  • Credit

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Credit
  • Gotten

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Giving
  • Just
  • Credit

• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
  • Necessary
  • Keeping

• Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

  

  Quincy Jones
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  • Black
  • Name

• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • High
  • House
  • Doing

• I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • Question
  • Politics

• It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Credit
  • Cards
  • Customer

• President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Respect
  • Problem
  • Serious

• Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • People
  • Why
  • Credit

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Know
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

  

  William P. Young
  • Life
  • Art
  • Culture

• I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Kind

• There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Killing
  • Bunch

• The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

  

  Lao Tzu
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