Lao Tzu Quotes
He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Quotes to Explore
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.
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He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
