Lao Tzu Quotes

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Team
  • Change

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Up
  • Process
  • India

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Control
  • Perfect

• Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Values
  • Employees
  • Cynical

• Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kids
  • Talent
  • Focused

• I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • God
  • Winning
  • Thought

• The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done

• And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Free

• do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Rest

• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

  

  Phillips Brooks
  • Wish
  • Prayer

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Time
  • Women
  • Kids

• The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Picture
  • Profound

• I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."

  

  Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
  • Kids
  • Wanted
  • Bike

• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  

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