Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 24

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius
Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.
Pearl Zhu
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
Sun Tzu
Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.
Pearl Zhu
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
the bouquetBetween me and the worldyou are a bay, a sailthe faithful ends of a ropeyou are a fountain, a wind, a shrill childhood cry.Between me and the worldyou are a picture frame, a windowa field covered in wildflowersyou are a breath, a bed,a night that keeps the stars company.Between me and the world, you are a calendar, a compassa ray of light that slips through the gloomyou are a biographical sketch, a book marka preface that comes at the end.between me and the worldyou are a gauze curtain, a mista lamp shining in my dreamsyou are a bamboo flute, a song without wordsa closed eyelid carved in stone.Between me and the worldyou are a chasm, a poolan abyss plunging downyou are a balustrade, a walla shield’s eternal pattern.
Bei Dao
Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.
Pearl Zhu
Holding up an oil-paper umbrella,I loiter aimlessly in the long, longAnd lonely rainy alley,I hope to encounterA lilac-like girlNursing her resentmentA lilac-like color she hasA lilac-like fragrance,A lilac-like sadness,Melancholy in the rain,Sorrowful and uncertain;She loiters aimlessly in this lonely rainy alleyHolding up an oil-paper umbrellaJust like meAnd just like meWalks silently,Apathetic, sad and disconsolateSilently she moves closerMoves closer and castsA sigh-like glanceShe glides byLike a dreamHazy and confused like a dreamAs in a dream she glides pastLike a lilac spray,This girl glides past beside me;She silently moves away, moves awayUp to the broken-down bamboo fence,To the end of the rainy alley.In the rains sad song,Her color vanishesHer fragrance diffuses,Even herSigh-like glance,Lilac-like discontentVanish.Holding up an oil-paper umbrella, aloneAimlessly walking in the long, longAnd lonely rainy alley,I wish forA lilac-like girlNursing her resentment glide by.
Dai Wangshu
In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.
Weina Dai Randel
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself.
Pearl Zhu
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
Watchman Nee
do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat
Sun Tzu
Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
Sun Tzu
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
Lao Tzu
Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance
Pearl Zhu
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.
Confucius
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?
Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.
Shan Sa
A noble minded person is not an implement.
Confucius
He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.
Marie Lu
Material and infinite are inseparableAppreciating their interconnectednessis the gateway to understanding
Lao Tzu
Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten.
Jamie Ford
Chaos is another name for opportunity
I-Ching
Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.
Pearl Zhu
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
Sengcan
Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.
Liezi
Many people pretend to be in thought, proving thought to be a beautiful thing. But the bald man doesn’t need a comb, the tiger doesn’t need weapons, the fool doesn’t need thought. The person with no needs is practically a sage, but the sage also needs to count the rivers across the iron bridge to pass the time. This is the difference between the sage and the fool.
Xi Chuan
Great artists need great clients.
I.M. Pei
There was a man whose only son died of a sudden illness. He did not mourn for his son, nor was he sad about it. His friends were curious about his behavior, so they asked him, "Your only son is dead. You should be heartbroken. Why do you act as if nothing had happened?"The man replied, "Before my son came, I had no son. I was certainly not heartbroken back then. Now I have no son. Why should I be heartbroken now?
Liezi
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Zhuangzi
Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.
Xinran
He is beauty, inside and out.He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.He is my light.
Marie Lu
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius
If you don’t want anyone to misunderstand you, go into yourself and thoroughly investigate and understand yourself. No one will ever misunderstand you ever again.
Hong Curley
You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
Vann Chow
And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
Vann Chow
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
Lisa See
To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction
Pearl Zhu
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
Lin Yutang
Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious
Sun Tzu
Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
Pearl Zhu
Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.
Pearl Zhu
June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.
Marie Lu
You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
Sherry Thomas
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
Sherry Thomas
A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
Pearl Zhu
I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision.
Ken Liu
I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?
Yiyun Li
There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.
Li Bai
On the surface, I seem to be glad of new people;But doomed to leave old friends behind me,I cry out from my heart for Shin-Fêng wineTo melt away my thousand woes.
Li Shangyin
Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.
Pearl Zhu
LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love.
Lao Tzu