Confucius Quotes

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Confucius

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

  

  Kaki King
  • You
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Money
  • Education
  • Need

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Imperfection

• When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Christian
  • Deep
  • Charity

• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Wish

• The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Song

• Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Sad

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• I earned my famous name.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Famous
  • Names

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Goal
  • Attitude
  • Ability

• I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Reason

• I don't want to go anywhere but here. They've treated me well. I don't know how anybody could be treated any better. This is where I want to be, and I'm not going anyplace.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Better
  • Treated

• I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

  

  Confucius
  • Ability
  • Knowing
  • Concerned