阈限性是一种模糊和矛盾的状态，一个纯粹可能性的领域。

传统观念中影响人一生的五大因素。

I’ve always thought that the schoolboy who’s a bit of a troublemaker is the one who’s going to come out and do something really interesting.

The best leaders are those who empower their teams to take ownership and drive change.

统计学是现代政治家武器库中最重要的武器。

Safety is the lifeline of the petroleum industry; it must never be neglected.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

The older I get， the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first—a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.