A good abstraction is one that emphasizes the essential and suppresses the irrelevant.

空白页既是作家最大的恐惧，也是最大的希望。

Light is the most important material in architecture.

小规模养殖户是水产养殖未来的支柱，要投资他们。

The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real. I’m not a player that is just going to come and go. I’m not a player that is going to make an All-Star team one time, two times. I’m here to be an all-time great. Once I made that commitment and said, ‘I want to be one of the greatest ever’, then the game became everything for me.

我一直觉得奇怪……我们钦佩的那些品质，如善良、慷慨、开放、诚实、理解和同情，在我们的体系中往往是失败的伴随物。而我们厌恶的那些特质，如精明、贪婪、占有欲、卑鄙、自负和自私，却是成功的特质。虽然人们钦佩前者的品质，但他们却喜欢后者的产物。

过去总是与我们同在，因为它滋养着现在。