Lao Tzu Quotes

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Lao Tzu

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• I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Growing
  • Thought
  • Sadness

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • People
  • Country
  • Sports

• I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Stop
  • Tomorrow
  • Starting

• There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Shoes

• A lot of us have done bullying and didn't even realize we did it.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Done
  • Bullying

• I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Work
  • Experience

• In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

  

  James Black
  • Imagination

• For dinner, I'll grill chicken with asparagus and call it a day.

  

  Jessie James Decker

• I'm able to switch gears at any moment.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Money
  • House

• Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

  

  James Hilton
  • Time
  • Value

• I want all my pain to count for something.

  

  Ann Jillian
  • Pain

• One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters

• In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Life
  • Success
  • Joy

• That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Causes

• The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Governing

• When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Human Beings
  • Governing

• The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Constitution
  • Documents
  • Governing

• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Governing
  • Poking
  • Large Country