The brain is not a passive recipient of stimuli but an active organizer of perception.

Money is like manure， its only good if you spread it around.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

诗人的使命是表现未被表现的事物。