Lao Tzu Quotes
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
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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.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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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.
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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.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
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I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
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The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.
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I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
