Confucius Quotes

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Up
  • Success
  • Fall

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• I don't eat red meat.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Equal
  • Soil

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • You
  • Rest
  • United States

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

  

  Jack Hannah
  • Want
  • Alone
  • Best

• The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Important
  • Fun
  • City

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Year

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• I did not come all this way not to interfere

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Way
  • Interfere

• One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

  

  Sumner Redstone
  • Challenges
  • Accept
  • Risks

• There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Guy
  • Internet

• A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Learn

• Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

  

  Confucius
  • Goal
  • Learn
  • Reaching