我们钦佩的人的品质,善良和慷慨、开放、诚实、理解和感受,是我们体系中失败的伴随物。而我们厌恶的那些特质,尖锐、贪婪、占有欲、卑鄙、自我中心和自私,是成功的特质。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
但仍要尝试,因为谁知道什么是可能的呢?
The wound of displacement never fully heals; it only learns to speak in different tongues.
The context is the starting point of any project.
一幅画像束缚住了我们。我们无法走出它,因为它存在于我们的语言中,语言似乎无情地一次次地重复给我们看。
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
一本正经地对待消遣和刻板地追求学问,结果就会成为一个学究。