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Quotes by Chinese Authors

"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."

"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."

"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism."

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."

"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."

"A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace."

"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

"Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends."

"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."

"You can force the people to obey, you cannot force them to understand."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."

"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

"What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

"I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef."

"A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman."

"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."

"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."

"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."

"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."

"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."

"The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."

"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct?"
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