Top 100 Deng Quotes
#1. I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#2. We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#3. The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.
Ming-Dao Deng
#4. Build your life brick upon brick,
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.
Ming-Dao Deng
#5. Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.
Luol Deng
#6. We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#7. Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
Evan Osnos
#8. We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.
Luol Deng
#9. Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Li Peng
#10. I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#12. I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.
Deng Xiaoping
#13. If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.
Deng Ming-Dao
#14. All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Ming-Dao Deng
#15. If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.
Ming-Dao Deng
#16. Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
Ming-Dao Deng
#17. A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.
Ming-Dao Deng
#18. He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
Lee Kuan Yew
#19. From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.
Alephonsion Deng
#20. When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping
#21. Since China embraced Deng Xiaoping's reforms on 22 December 1978, China has experimented with different exchange-rate regimes. Until 1994, the yuan was in an ever-depreciating phase against the U.S. dollar.
Steve Hanke
#22. Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
Deng Xiaoping
#23. A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
Deng Xiaoping
#24. Family became so important to me. Without it I was like a tree alone in a desert.
Alephonsion Deng
#25. Great wisdom is achieved by being open to the world. The world does not open unless you are willing to be open.
Alephonsion Deng
#26. No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
Deng Xiaoping
#27. Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.
Ming-Dao Deng
#29. When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
Ming-Dao Deng
#30. Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.
Deng Xiaoping
#31. The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
Henry Kissinger
#32. Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.
Deng Xiaoping
#33. - If it's like us, why is it somewhere else? Deng asked. Dut
Dave Eggers
#34. A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.
Ming-Dao Deng
#35. You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.
Ming-Dao Deng
#36. Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.
Ming-Dao Deng
#37. My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#38. We'd never handled guns so when we saw a person handle it and it went bang, we knew that thing killed. We called it the harmful stick. We learned quickly that if somebody points the stick at you, you die.
Alephonsion Deng
#39. We cannot allow ourselves to be hobbled by the woes and alienation of our race or nation. It is our responsibility to overcome these, even if we can only succeed in our hearts.
Ming-Dao Deng
#40. Life is a constant series of opportunities. If we don't reach out for things, if we don't take advantage of what comes our way, then we cannot be in harmony with the essential nature of life.
Ming-Dao Deng
#41. It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.
Ming-Dao Deng
#42. The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
Ming-Dao Deng
#43. He'd say, "If my mother was here, I wouldn't be like this." We'd say, "Shut up boy, you're not in your mama's house no more." We said that a lot. As children, seven or eight years old, we know nothing about the world, just that we were not in mama's house no more.
Alephonsion Deng
#44. Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.
Ming-Dao Deng
#45. It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
Ming-Dao Deng
#46. Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.
Ming-Dao Deng
#47. I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#48. As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami.
Luol Deng
#49. No matter how bad the situation is, if you can't find any humor then life is not worth it.
Alephonsion Deng
#50. An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.
Ming-Dao Deng
#51. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.
Ming-Dao Deng
#52. There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.
Ming-Dao Deng
#53. I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#54. Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.
Ming-Dao Deng
#55. As Deng Xiaoping once said, "I don't care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." The Stoics had their own reminder: "Don't go expecting Plato's Republic." Because
Ryan Holiday
#56. A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.
Ming-Dao Deng
#57. Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.
Ming-Dao Deng
#58. We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
Ming-Dao Deng
#59. Do you want to know how spirituality works? Breathe.
Ming-Dao Deng
#60. The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
#61. Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.
Ming-Dao Deng
#62. I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#64. [There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds - all 'Chinese' - in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].
Mark Elvin
#65. Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
Ming-Dao Deng
#66. Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.
Michael Specter
#67. He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
Henry A. Kissinger
#68. The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.
Ming-Dao Deng
#69. Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.
Ming-Dao Deng
#70. Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!
Ming-Dao Deng
#71. Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.
Ming-Dao Deng
#72. I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#73. If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.
Deng Xiaoping
#74. Whoever Barcelona are playing, you're just interested to watch because Messi's playing.
Luol Deng
#75. Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.
Deng Xiaoping
#77. Keep life simple ... turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy.
Ming-Dao Deng
#78. My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#80. Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
#81. As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#82. As much as I want to stay on the team
I love Chicago, I love the Bulls
at the same time, I know the business part of it. Sooner or later, all the rumors are going to come up.
Luol Deng
#83. It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
#84. If i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.
Ming-Dao Deng
#85. Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves for the sun? You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness Cannot match your perfection.
Ming-Dao Deng
#86. Once you have seen the face of God, you see the same face on everyone you meet.
Ming-Dao Deng
#87. By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.
Deng Xiaoping
#88. They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.
Luol Deng
#90. We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.
Deng Xiaoping
#91. The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow. Therefore meditation should be integrated with the flow of life. It should not dominate above all else.
Ming-Dao Deng
#92. There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.
Deng Xiaoping
#93. Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#94. Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.
Ming-Dao Deng
#95. By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.
Ming-Dao Deng
#98. Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.
Ming-Dao Deng
#99. Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
Deng Xiaoping
#100. 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
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