最好的想法往往来自最意想不到的地方。
【释义】保卫一家一姓的政权,是那些居高官、享厚禄的君臣们谋划的事;而保卫整个民族的文明、伦理与文化,即使是卑微的普通百姓,也有责任。
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what others want us to be.