"I don't think of myself as a female filmmaker. I think of myself as a filmmaker."

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

如果你相信自己，一切皆有可能。

"The only way to create real prosperity is to provide people with the freedom to innovate and create value."

Learning is not just about finding patterns, but about understanding the underlying mechanisms that generate those patterns.