Lao Tzu Quotes

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • School
  • Poetry

• You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Today
  • Spend

• I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Family
  • Think
  • Care

• Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Desire
  • Idea
  • Victory

• The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Learning
  • Treasures