Lao Tzu Quotes

To know and not to do is not yet to know.

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• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Sorry

• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sight

• I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Lead

• I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Art
  • Always

• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Find
  • Working

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Spirit

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Real
  • Together
  • Think

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Band
  • Study

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

  K. Flay
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Gift
  • Act
  • Behavior

• We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Simple
  • Fight
  • Tax

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Now

• To know and not to do is not yet to know.

  

  Lao Tzu
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