Lao Tzu Quotes

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

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• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Great
  • Done
  • Know

• There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Knowledge
  • Air
  • Doubt

• I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Fishing

• There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Single

• I don't want music to be a museum.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music

• Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great

• My dad would load me into the car under a pile of blankets in the middle of the night so I could sleep the whole way and be on the mountain when it opened.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Sleep

• I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

  

  Mary J. Blige

• I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I'm glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.

  

  Bob Elliott
  • People
  • Respect

• True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • True
  • Painting

• As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

  

  George Galloway

• ... Because the Egoist is to himself the warder of the human, and has nothing to say to the state except: 'Get out of my sunshine!'

  

  Max Stirner
  • Sunshine

• You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

  

  Dave Franco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• When I think about him, I think about him as John and John Wick. I think of John Wick being the assassin part of John. I would say that guy has strong will; never gives up; he's kind; and there's honor about him. He's also a man of strength. There are even some vulnerabilities to him. Most importantly, he's good at his job.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Together

• I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Remember
  • Action
  • Picture

• Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • House
  • Space
  • Wheel

• We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Long
  • Moments
  • Sacrifice

• A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Always
  • Challenge

• At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • War

• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wheel
  • Spokes
  • Wagon Move