Lao Tzu Quotes

The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Said

• Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Why
  • You
  • Look

• I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Small
  • Year
  • Step

• Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Military
  • Leader

• I want to take a more international direction with my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Career
  • Direction

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• Cut off the head of the snake

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Snake

• Oh rainy day woman,I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Sunshine

• Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • May
  • Question

• For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Deep
  • Wine

• Neither of us said a word as we picked our way down the path for the next quarter of an hour, and the sky receded to a deep violet. I had the illusion that, as it got darker, it moved away from us, expanding like a bubble, rushing away at a million light-years an hour, and as it whooshed past stars, we began to see them.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Past
  • Light
  • Deep

• Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Waiting
  • Master
  • Skill

• The film-watching crowd are mainly youngsters who see fashion on TV, in Hindi films, and in magazines.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Fashion

• In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Time
  • Football

• Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sky
  • Master
  • Trusts