Confucius Quotes

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

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• Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Internet

• I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Disability

• I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Life
  • Normal

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Feel
  • Coming

• Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Angry
  • Easy
  • Divorce

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • School
  • Promise

• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Learn
  • Rich
  • Cost

• I don't know how anyone could stop working.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Working

• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • War
  • Respect

• No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Know
  • Listen

• The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Community
  • Human

• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Entrepreneur
  • Accidental

• I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a one-guard all over, and then I started growing it out. When I had Tommy John, that was the last time it was buzzed. I've grown it ever since then.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Growing
  • College

• I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Community
  • Always
  • Possible

• The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Aim
  • E-mail

• I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Work
  • Done
  • Sorry

• When I ask my students to journal daily, I ask them not to judge and not to filter. Just put it down, I say—whatever you think of, however you want. A week goes by, and I send along a copy of Joan Didion’s short, classic essay “On Keeping a Notebook.” Write three paragraphs about the notebook pages that you have been keeping, I say. What is the value of the notes you have kept? What did they teach you about yourself? How honest are the pages, and what do you expect they will mean to you ten or twenty years from now? What shouts back at you about your voice and the sentences you leave behind?

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Voice
  • Judge
  • Student

• Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Health

• I've done gospel songs on every album.

  

  DMX
  • Done

• Experience is a question of instinct about life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Question

• If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

  

  Confucius
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