To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.

释义：如果人与人之间的关系是建立在利益之上的，那么一旦利益消失，两人的关系也会变得疏远。

有时候不逼自己一把，你永远不知道自己有多优秀。