Confucius Quotes
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke -
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson -
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
Tavi Gevinson -
No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
Sam Kean -
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. Salinger
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
Gary Numan -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
Taylor Schilling -
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
Gary Burton -
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
Yami Gautam
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
Zoe Foster Blake -
In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
Indra Nooyi -
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Mae Jemison -
TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
Pat Mitchell -
You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
Zack Greinke -
I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
Ian Harding
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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
Tony Abbott -
Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
Taissa Farmiga -
Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
Georges St-Pierre -
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
Confucius