Lao Tzu Quotes

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

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• The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Society
  • Respect
  • End

• Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Period
  • Favorite
  • Oil

• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Best
  • Door

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Conquer

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Batman

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• 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

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Body

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Self

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  

  Alessandro Volta
  • Fingers
  • Silver
  • Metal

• I say to the grownups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

  

  Bill Nye
  • World
  • Live
  • Kids

• I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • Magic
  • Imagine
  • Characters

• Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Teacher

• The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Teacher
  • Leader
  • Credit