Confucius Quotes

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

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• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Movie
  • Point
  • Direct

• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Sincerity

• In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

  

  Adele
  • Songs
  • Direct
  • Interviews

• There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Evidence
  • Direct
  • Sat

• I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Protect

• The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Value

• Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Done
  • Career
  • Success

• Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Cutting
  • Direct
  • Boards

• In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

  

  August Krogh
  • Small
  • Communication
  • Direct

• I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mad

• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  

  John Tillotson
  • World
  • Action
  • Trouble

• Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Journey
  • Ends

• People trust me. I sell sincerity.

  

  George Foreman
  • People
  • Sincerity
  • Sells

• Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Direct
  • Purposes

• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Sincerity
  • Destroys

• Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Destiny
  • Missing
  • Direct

• There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Certain

• Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Body

• The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Helping

• Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?

  

  David Rosenfelt
  • Running
  • Expression
  • Couches

• To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Reflection

• Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

  

  Confucius
  • Direct
  • Sincerity
  • Effected