Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 18

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.
Confucius
Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.
Pearl Zhu
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang
Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.
Vann Chow
When i get into the best college in America, he is cutting radishes for dinner. I have just found out ten minutes ago. I am elated. He puts down the knife to shake my hand and then goes back to cutting radishes.
Weike Wang
Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.
Marie Lu
He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.
Liu Cixin
If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
Lao Tzu
Happiness is not a horse you cannot harness it.
Chinese Proverb
he who will not economize will have to agonize
Confucius
I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.
Marie Lu
The song of the brush.
Chinese saying
Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.
Jamie Ford
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Lao Tzu
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.
Pearl Zhu
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
Francis Chan
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius
Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune and ill luck walk side by side. But he who never walks the wrong path, need have no fear when comes the summons in the night.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.
Pearl Zhu
If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.
Liezi
Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.
Pearl Zhu
I thought my duty was to restore Haan, but Haan is not King Cosugi or the burned-down palace or the ruins of the great estates or the dead nobles and their descendants pining for glory-these are but parts of an experiment at a way of life for the people of Haan, her true essence. When the experiment has proven to be a failure, one must be willing to try new paths, new ways of doing things.
Ken Liu
Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.
Zhuangzi
Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug.
Marie Lu
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.
I.M. Pei
He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
Lao Tzu
We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
Sun Tzu
Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.
Adeline Yen Mah
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.
Confucius
We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
Ming-Dao Deng
The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever
Mo Yan
She’d never felt more alone, even as hundreds of people walked by. No one recognized her, and she began to treasure her anonymity as a gift.
Jamie Ford
Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things.
Lao Tzu
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.
Tsung-Dao Lee
None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.
Pearl Zhu
Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.
Marie Lu
A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really found something, he would look unconcerned and never turn his head; though the world might condemn him and say he had lost something, he would look serene and pay no heed. The praise and blame of the world are no loss or gain to him.
Zhuangzi
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.
Sun Tzu
Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.
Pearl Zhu
If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.
Sun Tzu
No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like
Marie Lu
Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.
Pearl Zhu
No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.
Xinran
He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.
Confucius
A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.
Pearl Zhu
Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
Pearl Zhu
We visited Mao's old house, which had been turned into a museum-cum-shrine. It was rather grand––quite different from my idea of a lodging for exploited peasants, as I had expected it to be. A caption underneath an enormous photograph of Mao's mother said that she had been a very kind person and, because her family was relatively well off, had often given food to the poor. So our Great Leader's parents had been rich peasants! But rich peasants were class enemies! Why were Chairman Mao's parents heroes when other class enemies were objects of hate? The question frightened me so much that I immediately suppressed it.
Jung Chang
I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.
Marie Lu
You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.
Pearl Zhu
Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you.
Marie Lu
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
Francis Chan
Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.
Liu Cixin
A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
Chinese Proverb
The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.
Chinese saying
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese Proverb
Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations that she effectively unveiled China’s first national flag. The country had had no national ensign, until its engagement with the West at the beginning of her reign necessitated a triangular-shaped golden yellow flag for the nascent navy. Now she endorsed its change into the internationally standard quadrangular shape. On the flag, named the Yellow Dragon, was a vividly blue, animated dragon, raising its head towards a bright-red globe, the sun. With the birth of this national flag, remarked contemporary Western commentators, ‘China proudly took her proper place among the nations.
Jung Chang
He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
Sun Tzu
An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.
Pearl Zhu
The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.
Pearl Zhu