Confucius Quotes

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Disappointment

• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Destiny
  • Invention
  • Cowardly

• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Listening

• I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • People
  • Work
  • Competition

• For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Place
  • Directors

• I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Good
  • School
  • Art

• America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • America
  • Leader

• I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Up
  • Men
  • Age

• It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Book
  • Movie

• The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Church

• With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Habit
  • Betrayal

• Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Together

• Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Turn
  • Put
  • Spit

• Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

  

  James Cook
  • Technology
  • Government
  • Improve

• We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Labour
  • Speaking
  • Studied

• Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Fake
  • Studied
  • Tickets

• Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

  

  Confucius
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