Lao Tzu Quotes

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

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• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Me
  • Challenges

• By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • India
  • China

• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Movement
  • Sides
  • Masses

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Tough

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Animal

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Way
  • Never
  • Feel

• SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Want

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Think
  • Know
  • Poetry

• When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Know
  • Chances

• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Sound
  • Pieces
  • Piano

• It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
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