Confucius Quotes

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Important
  • Rest

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Prince and I happen to think alike.

  

  Vanity
  • Think
  • Prince
  • Happen

• If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Real
  • History
  • Practice

• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Two
  • Principle
  • Alike

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Practice

• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Practice

• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • People
  • Game
  • Focus

• Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Practice

• I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Bangkok is one of those places where it's so rich and full of tradition, but they're so open to different people - different gender expressions and gender identities. As a gay man, I never once felt uncomfortable there. As a black man, I never once felt uncomfortable.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Business
  • Support

• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

  

  Confucius
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