Lao Tzu Quotes

Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

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• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Thought
  • Younger
  • Retiring

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Creativity

• Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • System
  • Take

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it or not. Some people see random, unforeseen events as something to fear. I am not one of those people. To my mind, randomness is not just inevitable; it is part of the beauty of life. Acknowledging it and appreciating it helps us respond constructively when we are surprised. Fear makes people reach for certainty and stability, neither of which guarantee the safety they imply. I take a different approach. Rather than fear randomness, I believe we can make choices to see it for what it is and to let it work for us. The unpredictable is the ground on which creativity occurs.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • People
  • Change
  • Beauty

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

  

  Chris Patten
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Freedom

• I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Great

• Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Excellent