Lao Tzu Quotes

The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

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• There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Life
  • Value
  • Financial

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• There are no rules when it comes to love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rules

• My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Value
  • Seriously

• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • True
  • Man

• I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Use
  • Custom
  • Gibson

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Value
  • Inspiration
  • Changes

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Value

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Value

• The value of a loving family cannot be understated.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Family
  • Value
  • Loving

• I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Marriage

• Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Value

• As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Space

• We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

  

  Chris Matthews

• That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Real
  • American

• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Never
  • Sun
  • Gallery

• Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Life
  • Moments

• The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Value
  • Use
  • Comes