Lao Tzu Quotes

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

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• 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

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• 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

• His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Game
  • Integrity

• I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

  

  Maddox
  • Real
  • Why
  • Game

• Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Character
  • Conspiracy

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Profound
  • Essence
  • Masters