If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

如果我的未来决定于我的标准化考试表现，我就不会是现在的样子，我向你保证。

米歇尔·奥巴马

切忌浮夸铺张。与其说得过分，不如说得不全。

托尔斯泰

你说：“好吧，我们来花15分钟时间质疑这个问题、挑毛病。然后，我们根据程度高低排出所有行不通的理由，然后对这些理由逐个找出解决办法。”反复这样做，你就可以解决这个问题了。

杰夫·贝索斯

我在寻找人类最基本的东西--感觉。

李连杰

选择同穴的人，比选择棺材更重要。

李敖

The key to successful investing is to have the patience to wait for the right opportunity.

成功投资的关键是有耐心等待合适的机会。

沃尔特·施洛斯

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"

杰夫·贝索斯

故事的开头总是这样，适逢其会，猝不及防。故事的结局总是这样，花开两朵，天各一方。