Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 14

Change is a digital continuum.
Pearl Zhu
Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.
Pearl Zhu
Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there? What does the Way rely upon, that we have true and false? What do words rely upon, that we have right and wrong? How can the Way go away and not exist? How can words exist and not be acceptable? When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words reply on vain show, then we have rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best to use is clarity.
Zhuangzi
I have spent my entire life thinking of the Inquisitors as things, soulless creatures. But they are just men. Men can be swayed, and I have the power to do it.
Marie Lu
You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along take their leave, you cease to be joyful. From this point of view, though you have joy, it will always be fated for destruction.
Zhuangzi
Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.
Pearl Zhu
No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him.
Marie Lu
The author nicely encapsulates Paul's overarching intent in his letter to Corinth, to impress upon those in the church infatuated with the gifts of the Spirit a greater awestruck awareness of His presence in and among them. The author then illustrates thusly: if we have but a few coins, we may carry them lightly with little concern as to whether we lose them. But if we are aware that we carry a great sum, we will carry it with great care. How much more the Treasure of the Holy Spirit within the earthen vessel of our bodies?
Watchman Nee
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
Anchee Min
The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?
Yiyun Li
Silence is a source of Great Strength.
Lao Tzu
All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
Pearl Zhu
People in the West are always getting ready to live.
Chinese Proverb
Enemies can also be friends.
Wendy Zhang
Judgment and decision making are often considered together.
Pearl Zhu
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.
Pearl Zhu
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
Having given all he had He then is very rich indeed.
Lao Tzu
An army of the people is invincible!
Mao Zedong
Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment
Lao Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Sun Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
Lao Tzu
Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
Pearl Zhu
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.
Shan Sa
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius
Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.
Kat Zhang
Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker.
Ken Liu
But you can’t give them everything they want—they will always want more than they have.
Marie Lu
The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the characters, motivations and conflicts that make up the core of the story. This requires more parts of the brain. Some parts process emotion. Others infer the thoughts of others, letting us empathize with their experiences. Yet other parts package the experience into memories for future reflection
Livia Blackburne
I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
Francis Chan
I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.
Yiyun Li
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Chuang-tzu
The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.
Qiu Xiaolong
We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.
Hock G. Tjoa
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.
Murong Xuecun
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
Lisa See
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Lin Yutang
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
Mencius
After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.
Marie Lu
To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.
Confucius
But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the forces of production and increased productivity. Of course, the Cultural Revolution had done just the opposite. Official lies like this, habitually indulged in and frequently displayed by the authorities, served no purpose except to create the impression that truth was unimportant. Pg. 400
Nien Cheng
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
I need to let him go.
Marie Lu
The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.
Zhuangzi
Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.
Pearl Zhu
What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum. It is like bird song soaring and gliding over a vast landscape. You can feel this in your life: Events will take on a perfect momentum, a glorious cadence. You can feel it in your body: The energy will rise up in you in a thrilling crescendo, setting your very nerves aglow. You can feel it in your spirit: You will enter a state of such perfect grace that you will resound over the landscape of reality like ephemeral bird song.When Tao comes to you in this way, ride it for all that you are worth. Don't interfere. Don't stop - that brings failure, alienation, and regret. Don't try to direct it. Let it flow and follow it. When the Tao is with you, put aside all other concerns. As long as the song lasts, follow. Just follow.
Ming-Dao Deng
The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.
Pearl Zhu
In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.
Dai Sijie
Trusting me,” Teren murmurs, “is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.”“I’m doing more than that,” I reply. “For the rest of this journey, you will be my personal guard.”At that, Teren’s eyes flare with surprise and anger. “I’m not your lackey, Your Majesty.”“And I’m not Giulietta,” I fire back.
Marie Lu
Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.
Pearl Zhu
If a man crosses a riverand an empty boat collides with his own skiff,Even though he be bad tempered manHe will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat,He will shout at him to steer clear.If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing.And all because someone is in the boat.Yet if the boat were empty,He would not be shouting, and not angry.If you can empty your own boatCrossing the river of the world,No one will oppose you, No one will seek to harm you
Zhuangzi
Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.
Pearl Zhu
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb
Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.
Zhou Weihui