Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 15

Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.
Pearl Zhu
Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.
Pearl Zhu
The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.
Pearl Zhu
Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.
Pearl Zhu
A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.
Pearl Zhu
Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations.
Pearl Zhu
Judgment and decision making are often considered together.
Pearl Zhu
Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
A peaceful mind is not a matter of doing, but of being.
Pearl Zhu
Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.
Pearl Zhu
Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.
Pearl Zhu
Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.
Pearl Zhu
A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can’t stay still.
Pearl Zhu
Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself.
Pearl Zhu
Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow.
Pearl Zhu
Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal “drive.
Pearl Zhu
Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.
Pearl Zhu
You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.
Pearl Zhu
Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.
Pearl Zhu
Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively.
Pearl Zhu
Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.
Pearl Zhu
The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
Pearl Zhu
Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.
Pearl Zhu
Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.
Pearl Zhu
Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.
Pearl Zhu
Anti-digital mindsets are those “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.
Pearl Zhu
It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.
Pearl Zhu
Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.
Pearl Zhu
Setting the right priorities or having superior time management skill means knowing the difference between “must have,” and “nice to have.
Pearl Zhu
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
Lao Tzu
Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.
Vann Chow
For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him close at hand and observe his degree of respect. He will hand him troublesome affairs and observe how well he manages them, will suddenly ask his advice and observe how wisely he answers. He will exact some difficult promise from him and see how well he keeps it, turn over funds to him and see with what benevolence he dispenses them, inform him of the danger he is in and note how faithful he is to his duties. He will get him drunk with wine and observe how well he handles himself, place him in mixed company and see what effect beauty has upon him. By applying these nine tests, you may determine who is the unworthy man.
Confucius
If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the man may be, he will not get angry. But if there should be someone in the other boat, then he will shout out to haul this way or veer that. If his first shout is unheeded, he will shout again, and if that is not heard, he will shout a third time, this time with a torrent of curses following. In the first instance, he wasn't angry; now in the second he is. Earlier he faced emptiness, now he faces occupancy. If a man could succeed in making himself empty, and in that way wander through the world, then who could do him harm?
Zhuangzi
The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
Culture is corporate character.
Pearl Zhu
Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.
Pearl Zhu
Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
Pearl Zhu
Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.
Pearl Zhu
Culture should be a business ‘app,’ everyone can apply it daily.
Pearl Zhu
Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.
Pearl Zhu
Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.
Pearl Zhu
Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.
Pearl Zhu
Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each other's past. We Chinese have been collective for so long, personal histories are not worth mentioning. Therefore as soon as Xiaolin and I knew how old the other was, we knew exactly what big shit had happened in our lives. The introduction of the One Child Policy shortly before out births, for instance and the fact that, in 1985, two pandas were sent to the USA as a national gift and we had to sing a tearful panda song at school. 1989 was the Tiananmen Square student demonstration. Anyway, Xiaolin was one year younger than me, so I assumed we were from the same generation.
Xiaolu Guo
Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.
Kat Zhang
My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.
Marie Lu
Hi, I'm Day. Hi, I'm June.
Marie Lu
She walks to a tableShe walk to table She is walking to a tableShe walk to table now What difference does it makeWhat difference it make In Nature, no completenessNo sentence really complete thought Language, like woman,Look best when free, undressed.
Wang Ping
I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.
Meia Geddes
People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.
Yi-Fu Tuan
Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.
Vann Chow
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
As a youth, I listened to the rain from the bowers of pleasure houses,Red silk drapes translucent in the glow of candlelight.In my prime, I listened to the rain as a traveler,The sky low, the river broad, the calls of the wild geese harsh and cold.Now, grey at the temples, I listen to the rain beneath the eaves of an abandoned cloister.Has mine been a futile life?I have no answers, only the sound of raindrops upon worn stone steps,And long hours yet to pass before the light of dawn.
Sherry Thomas
Where’s the trail to Cold Mountain?Cold Mountain? There’s no clear way.Ice, in summer, is still frozen.Bright sun shines through thick fog.You won’t get there following me.Your heart and mine are not the same.If your heart was like mine,You’d have made it, and be there!
Han-shan
Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.
Confucius
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
He loved you.
Marie Lu
We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
Ming-Dao Deng
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
Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.
Lao She
Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.
Liu Cixin