Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 19

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.
Mao Zedong
Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.
Confucius
The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
An adaptive mind has better learning capability.
Pearl Zhu
When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.
Pearl Zhu
Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, ‘Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything’. The Master heard of it and said, ‘This is the ritual’.
Confucius
If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.
Confucius
At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Confucius
Sometime don’t think don’t say don’t do…is the best way to deal with life!
Vicky xu
Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious
Sun Tzu
Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.
Watchman Nee
God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
Watchman Nee
Have You Prayed” When the windturns and asks, in my father’s voice,Have you prayed?I know three things. One:I’m never finished answering to the dead.Two: A man is four winds and three fires.And the four winds are his father’s voice,his mother’s voice . . .Or maybe he’s seven winds and ten fires.And the fires are seeing, hearing, touching,dreaming, thinking . . .Or is he the breath of God?When the wind turns travelerand asks, in my father’s voice, Have you prayed?I remember three things.One: A father’s loveis milk and sugar,two-thirds worry, two-thirds grief, and what’s left overis trimmed and leavened to make the breadthe dead and the living share.And patience? That’s to endurethe terrible leavening and kneading.And wisdom? That’s my father’s face in sleep.When the windasks, Have you prayed?I know it’s only mereminding myselfa flower is one station betweenearth’s wish and earth’s rapture, and bloodwas fire, salt, and breath long beforeit quickened any wand or branch, any limbthat woke speaking. It’s just mein the gowns of the wind,or my father through me, asking,Have you found your refuge yet?asking, Are you happy?Strange. A troubled father. A happy son.The wind with a voice. And me talking to no one.
Li-Young Lee
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
Vann Chow
In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.
Duo Duo
The Master doesn't try to be powerful;thus he is truly powerful.The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;thus he never has enough.The Master does nothing,yet he leaves nothing undone.The ordinary man is always ding things,yet many more are left to be done.[…]Therefore the Master concerns himselfWith the depths and not the surface,With the fruit and not the flower.[…]Teaching without words,Performing without actions:That is the Master’s way.[…]The Master arrives without leaving,Sees the light without looking,Achieves without doing a thing.[…]The Master is above the people,And no one feels oppressed.She goes ahead of the people,And no feels manipulated.The whole world is grateful to her.Because she completes with no one,No one can complete with her.
Lao Tzu
Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.
Zhuangzi
If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17
Lao Tzu
Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good words.
Mencius
Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.
Mencius
A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.
Meia Geddes
Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its own. You build a home for it and hope it can find itself at home among all the other words. Nestled in a new place.
Meia Geddes
Language is insight itself.
Confucius
Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.
Confucius
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
Confucius
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
Confucius
most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about sovereigns and ministers or cast aspersions upon man’s wives and daughters so that they are packed with sex and violence. Even worse are those writers of the breeze-and-moonlight school, who corrupt the young with pornography and filth. As for books of the beauty-and-talented-scholar type, a thousand are written to a single pattern and none escapes bordering on indecency. They are filled with allusions to handsome, talented young men and beautiful, refined girls in history; but in order to insert a couple of his own love poems, the author invents stereotyped heroes and heroines with the inevitable low character to make trouble between them like a clown in a play, and makes even the slave girls talk pedantic nonsense. So all these novels are full of contradictions and absurdly unnatural.
Cao Xueqin
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.
Yu Hua
She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.
Dai Sijie
No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.
Xinran
Literature endures like the universal spirit,And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.
Li Shang-yin
Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.--"My Confession
Zoë S. Roy
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
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.
Murong Xuecun
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
Murong Xuecun
The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.
Murong Xuecun
Genuine bravery for a writer.... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer’s conscience.
Murong Xuecun
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.
Murong Xuecun
Is there just one single love in a lifetime? Are all our lovers ― from the first to the last, including the most fleeting ― part of that unique love, and is each of them merely an expression of it, a variation, a particular version? In the same way that in literature there is just one true masterpiece to which different writers give a particular form (taking the twentieth century alone: Joyce, who explores everything happening inside his character;s head with microscopic precision; Proust, for whom the present is merely a memory of the past; Kafka, who drifts on the margins between dream and reality; the blind Borges, probably the one I relate to best, etc).
Dai Sijie
I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.
Ken Liu
True faith is unconditional.It is simply the reverence and aspiration towards a certain kind of spirit.Faith is not even the means of obtaining reward.Faith itself is the end.
Xue Mo
Indeed, life is full of tests. You don’t know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird’s quest, is the test to be the master of fate.
Nancy Yi Fan
Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
Pearl Zhu
Decisions always refer to the future.
Pearl Zhu
He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.
Liu Cixin
It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
Pearl Zhu
Creative leadership can be described as “adaptability meets agility,” and “innovation meets principles.
Pearl Zhu
Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.
Pearl Zhu
All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.
Pearl Zhu
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.
Pearl Zhu
An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.
Pearl Zhu
An innovative mind allows “the creative flow” to open up for information abundance.
Pearl Zhu
Out of Box” is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.
Pearl Zhu
Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
Pearl Zhu