Quotes of: Lao-tzu Keyword

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

Peter Singer

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Art as Experience

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

To Jerusalem and Back

I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.

Maybe Someday

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Thirukkural

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Rheumatology Multiple Choice Questions with Explanations

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Warren Bennis

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

Rush Limbaugh

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

Huston Smith

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Mahavira

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

John Eldredge

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Nicolaus Copernicus

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Ramakrishna

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Brian Greene