Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 21

There is no secret ingredient
Mr Ping
Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.
Bette Bao Lord
The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.
Zhuangzi
The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.
Brother Yun
I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe and doubt for all else.
Meia Geddes
People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.
Yiyun Li
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.
Pearl Zhu
Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.
Weike Wang
The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
Marie Lu
To motivate” is the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do things.
Pearl Zhu
Always take an emergency leisurely.
Chinese Proverb
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until muscles twitch and thought is translated into motion; mechanical levers are pressed; electrons are rearranged; marks are made on paper.At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random mutations; upside-down images are formed against two screens made up of millions of light-sensitive cells, which translate light into electrical pulses that go up the optic nerves, cross the chiasm, down the optic tracts, and into the visual cortex, where the pulses are reassembled into letters, punctuation marks, words, sentences, vehicles, tenors, thoughts.The entire system seems fragile, preposterous, science fictional.
Ken Liu
Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good words.
Mencius
Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.
Pearl Zhu
Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.
Confucius
Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.
Chinese Proverb
Her Majesty to the theatre. The performance took place on a stage erected in the courtyard, and Her Majesty closed in one part of her veranda for the use of the guests and Court ladies. During the performance I began to feel very drowsy, and eventually fell fast asleep leaning against one of the pillars. I awoke rather suddenly to find that something had been dropped into my mouth, but on investigation I found it was nothing worse than a piece of candy, which I immediately proceeded to eat. On approaching Her Majesty, she asked me how I had enjoyed the candy, and told me not to sleep, but to have a good time like the rest. I never saw Her Majesty in better humor. She played with us just like a young girl, and one could hardly recognize in her the severe Empress Dowager we knew her to be.
Der Ling
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
Confucius
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.
Mao Tse-Tung
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will certainly be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Cao Cao
And what some people don't understand was that bleeding wasn't a sign of weakness; it was a sign of strength. It demonstrated to the world that you were vulnerable and ordinary, but when you wanted something enough, and fought hard for it, you were capable of doing extraordinary things.
Natasha Ngan
From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?
Luo Guanzhong
The boy who walks in the light
Marie Lu
We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was
Jean Kwok
Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit,” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.
Pearl Zhu
The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she’d caught him staring.For a decade, I was fixated by her beauty. I wrote an entire article on the evolutionary significance of beauty as a rebuke to myself, that I, who understood the concepts so well, nevertheless could not escape the magnetic pull of one particular woman’s beauty.She knew. With surgical precision, she had peeled back his layers of defenses, until his heart lay bare before her, all its shame and yearning exposed.He could have lived with this if only he’d kept his secret whole and buried. But she knew. She knew.
Sherry Thomas
Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.
Jeff Chu
Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal “drive.
Pearl Zhu
Context is a chain of associations which stimulate creativity.
Pearl Zhu
Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.
Pearl Zhu
You risked an awful lot for someone you hardly know.' I narrow my eyes. 'THAT doesn't say much about your character. Perhaps you should wait until someone's about to be executed for a mistake YOU made.
Marie Lu
Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.
Pearl Zhu
There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.
Marie Lu
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves.
Lao Tzu
The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.
Pearl Zhu
To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.
Lao Tzu
I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”“Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.
Sherry Thomas
I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?
Marie Lu
Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities.
Pearl Zhu
My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.
Yu Hua
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.
Sun Tzu
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
I.M. Pei
Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.
Pearl Zhu
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
Confucius
Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.
Pearl Zhu
He raised his arm to strike me. At that very moment, [my daughter] Meiping's cat, Fluffy, came through the kitchen door, jumped on the man's leg from behind, and sank his teeth into the flesh of the man's calf.
Nien Cheng
Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.
Luo Guanzhong
So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.
Marie Lu
Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.
Pearl Zhu
Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.
Liu Cixin
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
I.M. Pei
Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need
Hui Hai
I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.
Adeline Yen Mah
Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
Marie Lu
Pilfering was common in Communist China’s state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair compensation for their low pay. The practice was so widespread that it was an open secret. The workers joked about it and called it "Communism," which in Chinese translation means "sharing property." Pg. 390
Nien Cheng
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
Hsin Hsin Ming
He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.
Marie Lu