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;
这就是为什么我们如此在乎事业和成就,以及看重金钱和物质的原因。我们时常被告知我们处在一个物质挂帅的时代,我们都是贪婪的人。我并不认为我们特别看重物质,而是活在一个物质能带来大量情感反馈的时代。
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Man is so much the voice of his interest that it is not enough to make him see the right, but you must make him feel it.
There is an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.