Lao Tzu Quotes

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

Lao Tzu

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• Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Conservative
  • Fiscal

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • World
  • Peace
  • Calm

• I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Work
  • God
  • Think

• I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True

• I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Wanted

• I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Man
  • Exhausted

• In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Invention

• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Great
  • Color
  • Wine

• People spend money when and where they feel good.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

  

  Katie Salen
  • Player
  • Games
  • Conflict

• Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to get more qualified judges. We need infrastructural reforms. All of our laws need to be re-examined by a law reform commission.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Law
  • Training
  • Broken

• Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Individual
  • Social
  • Generations

• I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Really
  • Can
  • Afford

• Until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Death
  • Giving
  • Alone

• By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Conscious
  • Animal Nature
  • The Eternal