Lao Tzu Quotes

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Feel
  • Doing
  • Guilty

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Act
  • Constitution

• Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Theater
  • Known
  • Melodrama

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Cool
  • Like
  • Really

• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Live
  • Society
  • Picture

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!

  

  Fleur East
  • Work
  • Week
  • Gym

• Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Today
  • You
  • Australia

• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Think
  • Myself
  • I Think

• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

  

  David Chang
  • Bad
  • Lost

• The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • World
  • Truth
  • Thoughts

• People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

  

  Ally Walker
  • Job
  • Mom

• The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learning
  • Practice
  • Afraid