Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 24

If a man crosses a riverand an empty boat collides with his own skiff,Even though he be bad tempered manHe will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat,He will shout at him to steer clear.If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing.And all because someone is in the boat.Yet if the boat were empty,He would not be shouting, and not angry.If you can empty your own boatCrossing the river of the world,No one will oppose you, No one will seek to harm you
Zhuangzi
Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.
Meia Geddes
We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.
Ai Weiwei
Great artists need great clients.
I.M. Pei
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
I.M. Pei
I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.
Meia Geddes
Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.
Meia Geddes
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
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
A little self-doubt is a good thing," said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us.
Ken Liu
The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.
Pearl Zhu
Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
Pearl Zhu
Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.
Pearl Zhu
Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.
Pearl Zhu
Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.
Pearl Zhu
A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.
Pearl Zhu
Vision is a future state of beings.
Pearl Zhu
The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.
Pearl Zhu
Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.
Pearl Zhu
To lead people, you must follow behind.
Lao Tzu
Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.
Pearl Zhu
You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.
Pearl Zhu
The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.
Pearl Zhu
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
Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
Pearl Zhu
Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.
Pearl Zhu
From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.
Pearl Zhu
All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
Pearl Zhu
Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.
Pearl Zhu
Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.
Pearl Zhu
The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.
Pearl Zhu
Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.
Pearl Zhu
Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.
Pearl Zhu
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
Lao Tzu
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves.
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
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Lao Tzu
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
So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.
Lao Tzu
Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.
Witness Lee
You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.
Francis Chan
Frederick Buechner writes, “Intellectually we all know that we will die but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as thought it were true. On the contrary, we tend to live as though our lives would go on forever.
Francis Chan
But Christianity is a queer business! If at the outset we try to do anything, we get nothing; if we seek to attain something, we miss everything. For Christianity begins not with a big DO, but with a big DONE.
Watchman Nee
How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?
Watchman Nee
We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.
Francis Chan
In these remote corners, I have discovered a center point, where East met West, and although there has been a collision of cultures, there is now a new Christian identity that is distinctly Chinese. The circuitous mountain path in Yunnan province is red because over many years it has been soaked with blood.
Liao Yiwu
Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.
Francis Chan
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
Francis Chan
The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.
Meia Geddes
Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.
Lao Tzu
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.
Marie Lu
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.
Pearl Zhu
Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.
Pearl Zhu
Change Agents have a “learning wheel” in their mind.
Pearl Zhu
Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.
Pearl Zhu
Asking big “WHY” question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.
Pearl Zhu
Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.
Pearl Zhu