Confucius Quotes
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebookâa fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
