Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 6

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
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Yiyun Li
I spur my horse past the ruined city;the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts:ancient battlements, high and low;old grave mounds, great and small.Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed tremblesand the voice of the great trees clings forever,I sigh over all these common bones --No roll of the immortals bears their names.
Han-shan
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.
Watchman Nee
Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of a falling wall was like a volcanic eruption fading into a mountain of roses. The wall sawyer felt a loving animosity toward walls. “You must pay attention to your obsessions, where life and love intersect,” she told the little queen. 
Meia Geddes
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
Blessings never come in pairs misfortunes never come alone.
Chinese Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
Ma Jian
Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
Pearl Zhu
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Lin Yutang
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
Jamie Ford
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Lisa See
There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.
Pearl Zhu
Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.
Pearl Zhu
As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs.- Lao-tzu
Lao Tzu
A child-like mind is full of imagination.
Pearl Zhu
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
I.M. Pei
Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.
Confucius
China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
Chou En-lai
You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.
Fan Wu
Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.
Sun Tzu
Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.
Pearl Zhu
Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.
Pearl Zhu
If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
Sun Tzu
He doesn't know who I am.
Marie Lu
No one has yet tested the pencilTo see how many words it can write
Xi Chuan
No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like
Marie Lu
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]
Sun Tzu
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
In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.
Zhuangzi
Sometime don’t think don’t say don’t do…is the best way to deal with life!
Vicky xu
The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.
Pearl Zhu
Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
Pearl Zhu
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
Pearl Zhu
You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.
Marie Lu
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
Time flows away like the water in the river.
Confucius
Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult.
Pearl Zhu
Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
As events would show, Cixi was indeed opposed to the foreign policy of her husband and his inner circle – but for very different reasons. Silently observing from close quarters, she in fact regarded their stubborn resistance to opening the door of China as stupid and wrong. Their hate-filled effort to shut out the West had, in her view, achieved the opposite to preserving the empire. It had brought the empire catastrophe, not least the destruction of her beloved Old Summer Palace. She herself would pursue a new route.
Jung Chang
Someone's going to be very pleased to see you.""I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think.""I wasn't talking about the Elector."My heart jumps at that.
Marie Lu
Literature endures like the universal spirit,And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.
Li Shang-yin
Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
Pearl Zhu
No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him.
Marie Lu
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Mencius
Stupidity and MadnessThe Tao is clear, yet this clarity requires you to sweep away all your clutter. At all times watch out for your own stupidity, be careful of how your mind jumps around. When nothing occurs to involve your mind, you return to true awareness. When unified mindfulness is purely real, you comprehend the great restoration. The ridiculous ones are those who try to cultivate quietude - as long as body and mind are unstable, it is madness to go into the mountains.
Liu Yiming
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
Ming-Dao Deng
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
Zhuangzi
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
You think me cruel.”“No.” Magiano hesitates for a long moment. “Maybe a little.”“I’m not branding them because I am cruel,” I say calmly. “I’m doing it as a reminder of what they’ve done to us. To the marked. You’re so quick to forget.”“I never forget,” Magiano replies. This time, there is a slight sharpness to his tone. His hand hovers near his side, where his childhood wound continues to plague him. “But branding the unmarked with your crest will not make them any more loyal to you.”“It makes them fear me.”“Fear works best with some love,” Magiano says. “Show them that you can be terrifying, yet generous.” The gold bands in his braids clink. “Let the people love you a little, mi Adelinetta.
Marie Lu
Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.
Vann Chow
With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.
Wu Cheng'en
Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
Pearl Zhu
People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.
Yiyun Li
He felt as if he has heard similar stories before. The wimp at school had grown to become stronger than the bully. And by some devious twist of fate, he would pop back into your life years later and take his revenge in the most unimaginable ways, and make sure that you suffer as much, or more, than he ever did before.
Vann Chow