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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China."
"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."
"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."
"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."
"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."
"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct?"
"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."
"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
"To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence."
"For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples."
"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
"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."
"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."
"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."
"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."
"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
"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."
"I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there."
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
"What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"
"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
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