"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."
存在前于本质。
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.
The psychologist must study the mind as it is, not as it ought to be.
衡量一个领导者的真正标准不是他们有多少追随者，而是他们培养了多少领导者。
To read is to travel without moving; to write is to move without traveling.
——对共产国际派到广州之达林说，1922年4月27日