Confucius Quotes

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• I've been in more laps than a napkin.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Been
  • Napkin

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Feel
  • Act

• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Leadership

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • For Her
  • Invisible

• I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Me
  • Angry

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Women
  • Small
  • Literacy

• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • End
  • Media

• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Personality
  • Speed
  • Facebook

• Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • Believe
  • Father

• We're in space and space is the place!

  

  Randy Savage
  • Space
  • Place

• Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Find
  • Place
  • Born

• The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

  

  Confucius
  • Teacher
  • Place
  • Students