实现任何有价值的事情的三个重要要素是:努力工作、坚持不懈和常识。
问题是,如果你打从心里相信,那些在社会顶层的人都是精英,同时你也暗示着,以一种残忍的方法,相信那些在社会底层的人,天生就该在社会底层,换句话说,你在社会的地位不是偶然,而都是你配得的,这种想法让失败变得更残忍。
理解一种文化的最好方法是阅读它的故事。
"The problem with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
We are all just echoes of something that once was.