Lao Tzu Quotes

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Imagine
  • More
  • Expectations

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Why
  • Positive

• I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Period

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Blue

• That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Color
  • Shows

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Predict
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