镂冰为璧，不可得而用也；画地为饼，不可得而食之。

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

阿兰·德波顿

If you're going to innovate, you have to be willing to fail. If you're going to try new things, then you have to be willing to accept that you might fail.

如果你要创新，你必须愿意失败。如果你要做一些新的东西，那么你必须愿意接受你可能会失败。

杰夫·贝索斯

三种情况下你永远不会后悔订购过多的东西：倒混凝土时、选择电池时和为派对准备冰块时。

凯文·凯利

简言之，幸福就是没有痛苦的时刻。他出现的频率并不比我们想象的少，人们常常只是在幸福的金马车驶过去很远时，捡起地上的金鬃毛说，原来我见过它。人们喜欢会为幸福的标本，却忽略了幸福披着露水散发清香的时刻。那时候我们往往步履匆匆，瞻前顾后，不知在忙些什么。世上有人预报台风，有人预报蝗虫，有人预报瘟疫，有人预报地震，却没有人预报幸福。

毕淑敏

进入八十年代后，官员们为了多当几年官或是为了当更大的官，都把年龄往小里改，都把学历往高里填。

莫言

The real giants have been those who have stood for something, who have had a clear idea of what they wanted to say and have said it with force and clarity.

真正的巨人是那些坚持某些东西的人，他们清楚地知道自己想说什么，并且用力量和清晰度表达出来。