Quotes of: Lao-tzu Keyword

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.

Marsha Thomason

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Huston Smith

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The Republic

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Letters of John Keats

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

Peter Singer

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Herodotus

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Josh Billings

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

Christopher Lee

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Daniel Goleman

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

David Letterman

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Harold Pinter