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

• Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Age
  • Phenomenon

• I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

  

  James Brown
  • Job
  • Play
  • Shoes

• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Earth

• The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Leader
  • Genius
  • Opponents

• I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Learn

• 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