Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 25

Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
Huang Po
If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.
Vann Chow
Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy window panes were caked with dead ants and dust, and smelt as sour as the curtains. But the sparrow wasn’t put off. It jumped inside the covered balcony and ruffled its feathers, releasing a sweet smell of tree bark into the air. Then it flew into your bedroom, landed on your chest and stayed there like a cold egg.
Ma Jian
It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.
Pearl Zhu
I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this: the twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you, the knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god.
Marie Lu
Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.
Pearl Zhu
A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.
Jamie Ford
Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. “I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?”He smiled. “And I love you too, darling.”-Lizzy and Will
Sherry Thomas
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Yiyun Li
The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.
Pearl Zhu
Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?
Ha Jin
Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.
Wu Cheng'en
The heart that gives, gathers.
Lao Tzu
When the cart doesn't move, do you goad the cart or the ox?
Nanyue Huairang
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Ha Jin
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Zhuangzi
The “Boxes” are the walls in your mind.
Pearl Zhu
Sometimes, the anger built up so much that people had to scream out their treasonous thoughts just to keep on breathing. Maybe not all of the were really crazy, but it was best for everyone involved to pretend that they were.
Ken Liu
The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!"Said the sun to the man, "But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light."---Domaccan poem, translated by Chevalle
Marie Lu
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius
Do not seek for the truth, only stop having an opinion.
SENG-TS'AN
A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world.
Xingyun
Before I had studied Chan for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and rivers once again as rivers.
Qingyuan Weixin
He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm
Sun Tzu
As a jailer, I never got to understand my charges. But when I became a bandit, I spent a lot of time being close to the lowliest of the low: criminals, the enslaved, deserters, men who had nothing to lose. Contrary to what I had expected, I found that they had a hardscrabble beauty and grace. They were not mean in their nature, but made mean by the meanness of their rulers. The poor were willing to endure much, but the emperor had taken everything from them.
Ken Liu
Change Management = The human side of change.
Pearl Zhu
A loyal servant does not think of things outside of his control.
Ken Liu
A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
Pearl Zhu
Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.
Pearl Zhu
If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them.
Lao Tzu
When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time.
Xinran
Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao
Lao Tzu
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)
Confucius
In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Lao Tzu
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.
Sun Tzu
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument. Forget the years; forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
Zhuangzi
Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.
Pearl Zhu
No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.
Li Bai
He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is powerful.It doesn't know about the unionof male and female,yet its penis can stand erect,so intense is its vital power.It can scream its head off all day,yet it never becomes hoarse,so complete is its harmony.The Master's power is like this.He lets all things come and goeffortlessly, without desire.He never expects results;thus he is never disappointed.He is never disappointed;thus his spirit never grows old.
Lao Tzu
Misfortunes come to all men.
Chinese Proverb
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
Sun Tzu
Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?
Luo Guanzhong
Unni will come, if not today, then tomorrow. Today is nearly gone, but other todays stir fecund in the word tomorrow, many other todays when this one has lapsed from existence. And because I think of Unni, invoking his name in this for ever recurrent today, already he is here for me." - The Mountain is Young
Han Suyin
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Confucius
What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.
Su Shi
Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.
Confucius
Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.
Chinese Proverb
The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming
Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
Pearl Zhu
The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
Pearl Zhu
But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.
Ken Liu
The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.
Pearl Zhu
Logic will save you when nothing else will.
Marie Lu
I don't want--to go--I don't want--to leave you--Eden--
Marie Lu
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.
Sun Tzu
So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: “Death is the cooling night.” That childhood memory, lost for so long, suddenly restored itself to my quivering heart, returning freshly washed, in limpid clarity, never again to leave me. If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one’s very own. Heine put into words the feeling I had as a child when I lay napping in the morgue. And that, I tell myself, is literature.
Yu Hua