Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 7

The art of war is the art of deception.
Sun Tzu
A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.
Pearl Zhu
A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.
Pearl Zhu
Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.
Pearl Zhu
The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.
Pearl Zhu
If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Pearl Zhu
Agility within and of itself is a strategy.
Pearl Zhu
A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.
Pearl Zhu
The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
Pearl Zhu
Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.
Pearl Zhu
A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
Pearl Zhu
The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
Pearl Zhu
Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.
Pearl Zhu
The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.
Pearl Zhu
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
Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.
Pearl Zhu
The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.
Pearl Zhu
The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.
Pearl Zhu
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Sun Tzu
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
Chin-Ning Chu
Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.
Liezi
I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.
Marie Lu
In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.
Liu Cixin
I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele’s expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. “They may have a hard time finding me,” I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. “Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,” he says.
Marie Lu
What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
Marie Lu
What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?
Marie Lu
I buried my father in my heart.Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who won’t drink milk, little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night, little clock spring newly wetin the fire, little grape, parent to the future wine, a son the fruit of his own son, little father I ransom with my life
Li-Young Lee
Without the participation of one fifth of the global population, without the endorsement of the world's second-largest economy, without the political will and security guarantee of this emerging power, international institutions and norms will be irrelevant and the legitimacy and credibility of their resolutions and arrangements will fall short of promise.
Wang Yizhou
You can live forever for me.
Sherry Thomas
What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
Francis Chan
Time is the cruelest force of all.
Cixin Liu
There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the rules of the day. And because the range was so narrow, people were always looking out for the tiniest variations. It was a real test of ingenuity to look different and attractive, and yet similar enough to everyone else so that nobody with an accusing finger could pinpoint what exactly was heretical.
Jung Chang
I recommend the French beret, for it gives the impression of just the right soft toughness, a veritable wave of sophisticated brain matter. It is the kind of hat that inspires a person to grow into it, to become the person they never knew they could be. The space between the top of the head and the beginnings of hat is among the most intimate of areas: earlobe behinds, elbow insides, and anuses. One must pay heed to such spaces for they hold a potential not fully known (but generally agreed to be vast).
Meia Geddes
To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.
Sengcan
A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.
Pearl Zhu
Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.
Pearl Zhu
Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.
Pearl Zhu
Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.
Pearl Zhu
A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level.
Pearl Zhu
A benchmarking mind is an “interpreter” mind which can bridge the gaps.
Pearl Zhu
The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.
Ming-Dao Deng
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom,The water flows.
Li Bai
I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.
Meia Geddes
If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.
Sun Tzu
One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.
Pearl Zhu
You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.
Pearl Zhu
At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking to me, endlessly, without making sense. But there was a small window over the door which could not be locked. One night I woke up to see him slithering through the tiny aperture and jumping nimbly to the floor. But he paid no attention to me. He aimlessly picked up various pieces of heavy mahogany furniture and let them drop with seemingly little effort. In his insanity he had become superhumanly agile and powerful. Staying with him was a nightmare.
Jung Chang
From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.
Bao Shu
From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?
Luo Guanzhong
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.
Luo Guanzhong
Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?
Luo Guanzhong
Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, "This thing called the Way - where does it exist?"Zhuangzi said, "There's no place it doesn't exist.""Come," said Master Dongguo, "you must be more specific!""It is in the ant.""As low a thing as that?""It is in the panic grass.""But that's lower still!""It is in the tiles and shards.""How can it be so low?""It is in the piss and shit!
Zhuangzi
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius
The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last 60 years, the developed countries, which represent 17 percent of the world's population, have been responsible for 70 percent of carbon emissions. The developed countries should adjust for this disparity accordingly. In contrast, developing countries, which represent 83 percent of the world's population, have contributed only 30 percent of total carbon emissions over the past 60 years. It is therefore fair to give developing countries more leeway to produce carbon emissions.
Yan Xuetong
Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.
Liu Cixin
I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear - the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past. In essence, nostalgia is associated mostly with the experience of a particular type of migrants, namely, exiles.
Ha Jin
Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We don't agree, but we will show our loyalty by our obedience.
Jamie Ford
I'm not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.
Marie Lu
A loyal servant does not think of things outside of his control.
Ken Liu