Lao Tzu Quotes

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

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• I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Want
  • Achieving
  • Stubborn

• My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  

  Larry King
  • Father
  • New York
  • Generosity

• Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Management
  • Useful

• I like the pause that tea allows.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Like
  • Tea
  • Pause

• A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Whole
  • Useful
  • Lemon

• The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Always
  • Principle
  • Useful

• It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Years
  • Compare
  • Useful

• The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Relationship
  • Unknown

• We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life - in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access - unwillingly accuses our lives.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Journey
  • Hero
  • Lawyer

• Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Kids
  • House
  • Parents

• I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Bear
  • Chicken
  • Kissed

• The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Knowing
  • Useful

• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Things
  • Ugly

• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • Together
  • Stop

• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

  Aristotle
  • Persons
  • Virtues
  • Useful

• It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

  

  Aristotle
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Noble

• Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Peace
  • Actions

• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wife
  • Enemy
  • Forgive

• There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

  

  George Eliot
  • Beliefs
  • Phrases
  • Hireling

• It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Leader
  • Horror
  • Distrust

• Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Useful
  • Bowl
  • Empty Space