And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.
我们也会从电视、广告,各样的市场宣传中得到我们对成功的想象。这些东西影响了我们,对我们自己的看法、我们想要什么。当我们听说银行业是个受人尊敬的行业,许多人便加入银行业,当银行业不再受人尊敬,我们便对银行业失去兴趣,我们很能接受建议。
Art should be dangerous - not physically dangerous, but dangerous to ideas.
Greatness is not about being the best, it's about being better than you were yesterday.
写作是一种孤独的职业,但正是这种孤独让我们能够深入探索人性的深处。
Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.