The poor face constraints that are often invisible to policymakers.

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

我不是天后，我是工作狂。

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there."

写好文章的唯一方法就是先写糟糕的文章。

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."