Lao Tzu Quotes

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Lao Tzu

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• My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Now
  • Beer
  • Solution

• Regulation creates a moral hazard.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Regulation
  • Hazard

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • More
  • Works
  • Arabic

• When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Brother

• The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Beauty

• I like what I've seen. He's a very quiet, respectful kid but when he plays, he plays hard.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Hard
  • Kid
  • Plays

• How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Time
  • Freaks

• The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Women
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Plants
  • Edible
  • Herbalism

• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Patience
  • Preaching

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Party
  • Cutting

• One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Simple
  • Reason
  • Identity

• Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Greed
  • Profit
  • Thieves

• The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.

  

  Charles Dow
  • Results
  • Average
  • Profit

• Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Profit
  • Abandon
  • Thieves