Lao Tzu Quotes

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Recognize
  • Volume
  • Appreciative

• He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Advantage
  • Paradox

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Dress
  • Recognize

• Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Thing
  • Advantage

• When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Trying
  • Success

• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
  • Order
  • Lives

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Love
  • Career

• The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Advantage
  • Online
  • Gambling

• There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Advantage
  • Field
  • Gained

• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Competition
  • Gold
  • Sister

• If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Secret
  • Recognize

• The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Growing
  • Mistakes
  • Advantage

• Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Recognize

• Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Couple
  • Celebrity
  • Advantage

• An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

  

  Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
  • Children
  • Knows
  • Advantage

• Close to the end, when I saw Sam coming, I tried to make a move. I tried to take advantage of the momentum, put me side by side with Dan. But it just was not enough. If we would be like NASCAR and have bumpers, I'm sure we would have won the race by now.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Race
  • Advantage
  • Close

• I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master...

  

  Prince
  • World
  • Thing
  • Human being

• Countless times, I remember watching him toss ideas—pretty far-out ideas—into the air, just to see how they played. And if they didn’t play well, he would move on.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Ideas
  • Played
  • I Remember

• Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Advantage
  • Recognize
  • Vessel