极少有人能在首次推介中完成销售。仅仅因为你对一些事物有信念，并不意味着其他人也愿意接受。你需要能够一次又一次坚定地推销你的愿景。大多数人不喜欢改变，所以你需要说服他们为什么要接受改变。不要因为畏惧而不去争取自己想得到的东西。

We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction.

一流智力的检验标准是同时持有两种对立观点，并且仍然能够正常运作的能力。

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

The problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school. Everybody's wearing jeans, everybody's the same. And yet, they're not. So there's a spirit of equality combined with deep inequality, which can make for a very stressful situation.

每一块石头，每一棵树，每一条河流都有一个故事要讲。