A Quote by Laozi

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Laozi

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Act Action Taste Undertaking

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Gertrude Stein

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Fernando Pessoa

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

Epictetus

When you taste a mango in the United States, it's just tasteless.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The proposal for how we were going to assist the Leave.E.U. campaign was to undertake the same type of research that we were undertaking in the United States.

Brittany Kaiser

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Deepak Chopra

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Jerome Bruner

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

Neal Shusterman

Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.

Matthieu Ricard

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.