Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 4

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.
Cixin Liu
Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
Pearl Zhu
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
Mencius
Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
Xiaolu Guo
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Yiyun Li
Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.
Pearl Zhu
He was awed at her touch and what the human heart is capable of feeling - such sadness, such shame, but such acceptance such joy, all at the same time.
Jamie Ford
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
Confucius
And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.
Lao She
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Chinese Proverb
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
Sun Tzu
A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.
Pearl Zhu
When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
Sun Tzu
There is no illusion greater than fear.
Lao Tzu
The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.
Pearl Zhu
The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.
Pearl Zhu
I became aware that there was no barrier between what was inside and what was outside. My body was illuminated by a bright light. I heard with my eyes and saw with my ears. I used my nose as mouth and my mouth as nose. I experienced the world with the totality of my senses as my spirit gathered and my form dissolved. There was no distinction between muscles and bones. My body stopped being heavy and I felt like a floating leaf. Without knowing it, I was being carried by the wind. Drifting here and there, I did not know whether I rode on the wind or the wind rode on me.
Liezi
The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?
Mo Yan
The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
Pearl Zhu
Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.
Liezi
Creativity is utilizing both sides of the brain simultaneously - creative + activity.
Pearl Zhu
Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.
David W. Wang
Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit your compassion,you yourself will not be limited.
Lao Tzu
Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.
Mencius
Change Agents have a “learning wheel” in their mind.
Pearl Zhu
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity
Sun Tzu
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
Yiyun Li
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
Jamie Ford
It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
Pearl Zhu
The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.
Pearl Zhu
I shake my head. “I know,” I reply. “You are searching for her too.”We stand for a moment, staring out at the stars mirrored in the calm seas. I know why Magiano doesn’t look at me. I remind him too much of her.“I’m sorry,” I whisper, after a long pause.“Don’t be.” A small, sad smile touches his lips. “She chose it.
Marie Lu
My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.
Shan Sa
Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear, not what others want you to hear. Let your mouth speak your mind freely and not be constrained by other people's approval or disapproval. Let your mind think what it wants to think and not let other people's demands dictate your thoughts. If your senses and your mind are not allowed to do what they want to do naturally, you are denying them their rights. When you cannot think, sense, feel, or act freely, then your body and mind are injured. Break these oppressions, and you will cultivate life.
Liezi
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
Sun Tzu
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius
I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a machine heart in your breast, you've spoiled what was pure and simple; and without the pure and simple, the life of the spirit knows no rest.
Zhuangzi
Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield.
Liezi
For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.
Pearl Zhu
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.
Mu Xin
Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his legs sprawled out, pounding on a tub and singing. "You lived with her, she brought up your children and grew old," said Huizu. "It should be enough simply not to weep at her death. But pounding on a tub and singing - this is going too far, isn't it?"Zhuangzi said, "You're wrong. When she first died, do you think I didn't grieve like anyone else? But I looked back to her beginning and the time before she was born. Not only the time before she was born, but the time before she had a body. Not only the time before she had a body, but the time before she had a spirit. In the midst of the jumble of wonder and mystery a change took place and she had a spirit. Another change and she had a body. Another change and she was born. Now there's been another change and she's dead. It's just like the progression of the four seasons, spring, summer, fall, winter."Now she's going to lie down peacefully in a vast room. If I were to follow after her bawling and sobbing, it would show that I don't understand anything about fate. So I stopped.
Zhuangzi
How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?
Lisa See
I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.
Marie Lu
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Confucius
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
Sun Tzu
If the eye never sleeps,all dreams will naturally cease.If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are,of single essence.To understand the mystery of this One essence is to be released from all entanglements.When all things are seen equallythe timeless Self-essence is reached. No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state.Consider movement stationaryand the stationary in motion,both movement and rest disappear.When such dualities cease to existOneness itself cannot exist. To this ultimate finalityno law or description applies.
SENG-TS'AN
Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.
Zhuangzi
Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what’s being said, but more importantly, what's not being said.
Pearl Zhu
Would you like to take away the person? Or would you like to take away the heart?
Feng Nong
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Brother Yun
Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.
Pearl Zhu
High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.
Pearl Zhu
A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
Lin Yutang
Lao Tzu "The key to growth is the introductionof higher dimensions of consciousnessinto our awareness.
Lao Tzu
We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.
Watchman Nee
Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.--"My Confession
Zoë S. Roy
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Lao Tzu