Nature has evolved incredible mechanisms for sensing the world - we're just starting to decode them.
大自然进化出了感知世界的惊人机制——我们才刚刚开始解码它们。
"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it requires only a reader.
She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.
I’m not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to fall. That’s life. You fall, you get back up.