Lao Tzu Quotes

Prepare while it's easy.

Lao Tzu

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• It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Easy

• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Easy

• Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

  

  Karl Rove
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Prepare

• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  

  Ovid
  • Matter
  • Easy
  • Anybody

• I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Always

• It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Away

• I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Doing
  • Easy
  • Start

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I don't have many easy songs.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Songs
  • Many

• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Plane

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Prepare

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• I'm an easy date. I meant cheap date, cheap date!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Easy
  • Date
  • Cheap

• I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Easy
  • Blue

• China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Energy
  • Easy
  • Economy

• Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy

• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • You
  • Easy

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Earth
  • Creatures
  • Spirits

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Said
  • Greatest
  • Smartest

• To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Battle

• Prepare while it's easy.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Easy
  • Prepare