Lao Tzu Quotes

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

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• You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Remain

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Me
  • More
  • Supposed

• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important

• And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Questions
  • Keep
  • Boundaries

• People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Resolution

• You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Mercy

• I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Tired

• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Practice

• There is always something new out of Africa.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • She
  • Funny
  • Nice

• I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

  

  Dusty Baker
  • Up

• I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Son

• I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • People
  • Live

• When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Mirror

• A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • Taught
  • Beast

• For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Genius
  • Minutes
  • Becomes

• Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Meditation
  • Before
  • Unlearn

• When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."

  

  Dallas Campbell
  • Book
  • Community
  • Persons

• Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Becomes
  • Cultivates