我们都是潜在的化石，仍然携带着我们过去的痕迹。
We are all potential fossils still carrying within us the traces of our former selves.
I have so much to prove to myself. I want to be better. I want to be smarter. I want to be more talented. I want to be more efficient. I want to be more creative.
君子重视个人主观努力，不会去指望上天的恩赐，所以每天都会有所进步。
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.