Lao Tzu Quotes

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Together
  • Freedom

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Art
  • Making Money

• In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • World
  • Done
  • Me

• Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Friend

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Picture

• These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Why
  • Mad

• Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.

  

  Jack Welch
  • True
  • Black
  • Forever

• Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • World
  • Present
  • Supernatural

• Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • World
  • Real

• My advice on firing is simple: Treat that person the same way you'd want to be treated if you were in that situation. They're still a good person, just not the right fit. So how do you help them move on in a productive way that allows them to maintain their dignity?

  

  Mary Barra
  • Good
  • Help
  • Simple

• I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Men
  • Book
  • Science

• The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Done
  • Past

• Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

  

  Paul Walker
  • Attitude
  • Gangster

• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Fear

• If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

  

  David Christian
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

  

  Quintilian
  • Writing
  • Impossible
  • Simplicity

• Do you want a list of what my dogs taught me? Patience, perspective, joy, loyalty, the simplicity and presence of their joy. That's a really great daily reminder, bad stuff happens, difficult stuff happens and you take them out onto the beach and you go "OK, now I see". You tell them the current political situation in the world and they go "should we go for a walk?" And you go, right, that's the correct answer.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Dog
  • Perspective
  • Beach

• The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Simplicity
  • Symbol
  • Cube

• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness