Confucius Quotes

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Long
  • Language
  • Voice

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Best

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Words
  • Blessed

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Said
  • Blue
  • Nobody

• You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Home
  • Game
  • Play

• With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

  

  Parker Posey
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• My mom is a sculptress.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mom

• As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Song
  • Player

• One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Happy
  • Growing

• It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Responsibility
  • King
  • Impressive

• I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

  

  Nina Totenberg
  • Woman
  • Court

• Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowing
  • Caring
  • Strive