In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人,我有一个坏消息,这里的人都很势利。有时候,英国以外的人会想象,势利是英国人特有的个性,来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是,并不只是这样,势利是一个全球性的问题,我们是个全球性的组织,这是个全球性的问题,它确实存在。势利是什么?,势利是以一小部分的你,来判别你的全部价值,那就是势利。
我非常爱花,以至于我想亲吻它们,但我知道如果我这样做,它们会枯萎死亡。
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for—getting paid for doing what you love.
永远不要问理发师你是否需要理发。
当没有人相信你时,你必须相信自己。这就是让你成为赢家的原因。
我相信讲故事的力量可以改变人们的观点。
当你认为自己无所不知的那一刻,恰恰是你最需要学习的时候。
The true artist is not the one who is inspired, but the one who inspires others.