Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 13

Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
Pearl Zhu
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
Ding Ling
The clouds above us join and separate,The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating?
Lu Yu
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao Tzu
What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
Marie Lu
At its core, Agile is a mindset.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.
Pearl Zhu
To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.
Marie Lu
Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.
Confucius
Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead perfect your love.
Master Sengstan
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Lisa See
Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
Sherry Thomas
The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone.
Zhuangzi
Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.
Xinran
The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn't forget where he began; he didn't try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again.
Zhuangzi
Wanting to give her the best fit I could, I sand the knowledge I had learned from Snow Flower. "Everyone needs clothing-no matter how cool it is in summer or how warm it is in winter-so make clothes for others without being asked. Even if the table is plentiful, let your in-laws eat first. Work hard and remember three things: Be god to your in-laws and always show respect, be good to your husband and always weave for him, be good to your children and always be a model of decorum to them. If you do these things, your new family will treat you kindly. In that fine home, be calm of heart.
Lisa See
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.
I.M. Pei
One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.
Hock G. Tjoa
Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
Pearl Zhu
The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
Pearl Zhu
There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost disturbing, attention I got from the various six-feet tall heavily made up air hostesses, that I would come back for more given the steep price tag.
Vann Chow
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu
The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.
Pearl Zhu
When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.
Confucius
But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
Ha Jin
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
Li-Young Lee
Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
Pearl Zhu
Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.
Meia Geddes
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
Words are the voice of the heart.
Confucius
The Master doesn't try to be powerful;thus he is truly powerful.The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;thus he never has enough.The Master does nothing,yet he leaves nothing undone.The ordinary man is always ding things,yet many more are left to be done.[…]Therefore the Master concerns himselfWith the depths and not the surface,With the fruit and not the flower.[…]Teaching without words,Performing without actions:That is the Master’s way.[…]The Master arrives without leaving,Sees the light without looking,Achieves without doing a thing.[…]The Master is above the people,And no one feels oppressed.She goes ahead of the people,And no feels manipulated.The whole world is grateful to her.Because she completes with no one,No one can complete with her.
Lao Tzu
Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
Pearl Zhu
It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.
Vann Chow
About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
Xiaolu Guo
Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
Pearl Zhu
Do you see how much power you have when you act without fear?
Ken Liu
Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity.
Pearl Zhu
O, to take what we love inside,to carry within us an orchard, to eatnot only the skin, but the shade,not only the sugar, but the days, to holdthe fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite intothe round jubilance of peach. There are days we liveas if death were nowherein the background; from joyto joy to joy, from wing to wing,from blossom to blossom toimpossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
Li-Young Lee
In worthy teaching, all things are related.
Confucius
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
Li-Young Lee
The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
Pearl Zhu
I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.
Meia Geddes
A little self-doubt is a good thing," said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us.
Ken Liu
Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the `other people` dimension, the greater our personal `greatness`.
Chairman Mao
Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done.
Marie Lu
Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities.
Jiang Rong
Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact
Marie Lu
Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed
Ruth Bell Graham
The dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons
Zoë S. Roy
Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.
Pearl Zhu
The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.
Ming-Dao Deng
Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.
Pearl Zhu
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.
Sherry Thomas
For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.
Sun Tzu
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.
Francis Chan
I can taste the good-bye on his lips.
Marie Lu
If his forces are united, separate them.
Sun Tzu
Vision is a future state of beings.
Pearl Zhu
So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
Sun Tzu