Quotes by Chinese Authors

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Want,

"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Man, Men, Enemy, Now, Reason

"Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience."

Ang Lee, Chinese Director

Fight, First

"In spite of your fear, do what you have to do."

Chin-Ning Chu, Chinese Businessman

Fear,

"Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back."

Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman

Lie, March, Will

"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."

Yuan T. Lee, Chinese Scientist

Nature, Society, Time, Knowledge

"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."

Margaret Chan, Chinese Public Servant

Country, World

"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher

Duty,

"The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move."

King Hu, Chinese Director

Want,

"Political work is the life-blood of all economic work."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

Life, Work

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Wrong,

"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

Life, Job

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Inspirational, Deeds

"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

Trust, Work, Beginning, Chance

"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."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

College, Cooking

"We have had a long wait for democracy."

Chen Shui-bian, Chinese Statesman

Democracy,

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

Love, Communism, Enemy

"Photography must be integrated with the story."

James Wong Howe, Chinese Director

Integration, Photography

"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

Life, People, Leisure, Objectives

"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out."

Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

Medical, Women, Books, Comfort

"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Enemy,

"We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia."

Li Peng, Chinese Public Servant

Country, Countries, Wishes

"We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world."

Yuan T. Lee, Chinese Scientist

Will, World

"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."

Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Leader

Leadership, Leading

"I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit."

Andy Lau, Chinese Actor

Work, Cinema, World

"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."

Jackie Chan, Chinese Actor

Money, Movies, Financial, Income

"You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me."

Andy Lau, Chinese Actor

Day, Girls, Hair, Press

"To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

Art, People, Deep, Misery

"I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old."

Jet Li, Chinese Actor

Learning, Old, Years

"Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven."

Lu Yu, Chinese Author

Drink, Dew, Heaven, Liquor

"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

Food,

"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."

Jackie Chan, Chinese Actor

Technology, Cinema, Culture, Harm

"For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom."

Cao Yu, Chinese Playwright

Work, Flowers, Waiting, Writer

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Success, Change, Direction, End, May

"I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there."

Joan Chen, Chinese Actress

Fear, Actors

"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."

Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher

People, Principles, Ritual, Teachers

"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."

Lin Biao, Chinese Politician

America, Europe, World

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Courage, Right

"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."

Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Philosophy, Day, Study, Thinking

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Treatment

"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Career, World

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Genius

"I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along."

Ang Lee, Chinese Director

Woman, Women, Gay

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

Revolution, Painting, Party, Writing

"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."

Jack Ma, Chinese Businessman

Entrepreneurship, Failure, Resilience, Business Growth, Mistakes

"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."

Li Peng, Chinese Public Servant

Friendship, Trust, Beginning, Cooperation

"When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Character, Worth

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

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"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."

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"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."

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"Love is more powerful than kicking ass."

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"If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land."

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"Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience."

​

"In spite of your fear, do what you have to do."

​

"Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back."

​

"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."

​

"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."

​

"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."

​

"The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move."

​

"Political work is the life-blood of all economic work."

​

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."

​

"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life."

​

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

​

"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."

​

"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."

​

"We have had a long wait for democracy."

​

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

​

"Photography must be integrated with the story."

​

"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."

​

"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out."

​

"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

​

"We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia."

​

"We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world."

​

"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."

​

"I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit."

​

"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."

​

"You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me."

​

"To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings."

​

"I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old."

​

"Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven."

​

"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."

​

"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."

​

"For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom."

​

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

​

"I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there."

​

"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."

​

"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."