Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Lao tzu
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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Confucius
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in K.
Ambrose Bierce
I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone, ... And that is to lead the Columbus Crew to the MLS Cup in 2004.
Greg Andrulis
What we call personality or character is a highly complex product of a long integrative process, a process which may go wrong and may be largely undone at any stage.
William Mcdougall
Now, for the umpteenth time, Arnold is undone by his attempts at hiding the truth from the public. How many more secrets does the governor have?
Bob Mulholland
The common idea that the cost of data storage is rapidly becoming zero is plainly wrong when you are talking about terabytes of data. It will cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to securely store the data in usable form. Europeans will end up paying a great deal more for communications so their privacy can be undone.
Jim Harper
Many of the conservative policies pursued by the (Justice) Department, such as the decisions not to seek (school) busing or hiring quotas ... have not been formalized in any way and could be instantly reversed when a new administration took office. It makes eminent sense to pursue legislation to guarantee that our policies cannot be easily undone.
Carolyn Kuhl
The deal is done ... If this had happened a few months ago with an undone deal, it would have been a potentially much riskier circumstance.
Roger Winter
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lyn Yutang
Any deal that might be reached could come undone in conference.
Michael Bean
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
Whatever happened to the (missing) money, it wasn't used in the right ways, and there were a lot of things left undone. Doing these projects, we're able to stretch our dollars. Of course, some things we just haven't been able to do quite yet.
Mark Milum
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
[The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it tried to persuade Sony to take the offending software off the discs.] We negotiated with them, ... and they agreed to do a lot of things. But they left undone a lot of things they said they wouldn't do.
Cindy Cohn
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
Richard Von Weizsaecker
This process can be set back ... but I do not think it can be undone. Because it is very much a one-way process ... not towards a united Ireland, but more to responsible government.
Bernard Purcell
There's always things that are left undone, and rather than focus on why, we should celebrate the fact that we're doing it.
Richard Herman
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
Mark Twain
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
Book of Common Prayer
We were undone by a forward line that murdered us.
Terry Brown
We had a stretch of about two minutes there in the second period where we came undone. We stayed with them well until then.
Jim Genuardi
It's intended to be a work in progress and there are a number of details left undone, but that's a good thing. It will allow for some dialogue to occur between producer groups and nursery groups, all who have a stake in the final outcome.
Mac Carraway
For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal.
Vanessa Friedman
DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command. His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. Israfel Brown.
Ambrose Bierce
European gains should take away some of the doomsday mentality, but investors will be jittery wondering how U.S. stocks will react. There's still much selling left undone.
Yutaka Miura
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
Elizabeth Fry
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