And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
我发现,从所有的学科吸取我所需要的95%的知识,并将它们变成我思维习惯的一部分,也不是很难的事情。当然,掌握了这些道理后之后,你们必须通过实践去使用它们。若不付诸实践,终究徒劳。
作家是国家的天然敌人,因为国家建立在谎言之上,而作家建立在真相之上。
快乐的唯一方法是热爱你所做的事情。