Lao Tzu Quotes

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Career
  • Always
  • Said

• Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

  

  Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace
  • Chaos
  • Take
  • Worth

• It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Best

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sick

• 'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Long
  • Character
  • Black

• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Blueprints

• Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Goodness
  • Watching

• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Time
  • Motivational

• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Army
  • Selfishness
  • Unhappiness

• Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.

  

  Pablo Tusset

• Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

  

  Stanley Spencer
  • Together
  • Everyday
  • Bigs

• If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

  

  Ice T
  • Player
  • Understand
  • Need

• The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Teaching
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