Confucius Quotes
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
Lamar S. Smith
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth
I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
Aaron Diehl
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Edward Hoagland
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Oren Peli
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
Erica Jong
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
Confucius
