We either do the best or we don't do it at all.

我不喜欢第二，我喜欢第一。

You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

I made my money by selling too soon.

我最大的焦虑来自于担心无法以理想的方式完成我承担的工作。

有时候最简单的歌曲最难写。

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."