So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
效率不仅仅是速度,而是第一次就把事情做对。
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
我们应兼顾短期收益和长期价值创造。
The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.
Literature is the art of expressing the inexpressible.