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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
"When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China."
"I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher."
"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."
"Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home."
"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."
"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
"To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away."
"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."
"Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society."
"Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same."
"As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone."
"Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things."
"If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak."
"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you."
"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
"The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation."
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."
"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."
"When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese."
"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."
"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding."
"If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction."
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