Lao Tzu Quotes

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

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• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Language

• My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Selfish

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Music
  • Action
  • Memories

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• 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

• The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Different
  • Human
  • Consciousness

• It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Tears

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Film
  • Thing
  • Directing

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Aging

• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Beauty

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

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

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Twitter
  • Awkward
  • Drums

• People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • American

• I've done quite a few big American films.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Done
  • American

• You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Song
  • Chance
  • Frustrated

• Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Everyday