Lao Tzu Quotes

Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • You
  • Look
  • Bed

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Character
  • Man
  • Thought

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

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

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• Style is something you either have or don't have.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Style

• I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.

  

  Chuck Feeney

• As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Respect
  • Justice
  • Equality

• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • House
  • Voice

• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Learn
  • Build