Lao Tzu Quotes
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Quotes to Explore
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
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I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
