In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions

  • -- Nathaniel Branden 纳撒尼尔·布兰登

在任何文化、亚文化或家庭中,信仰高于思想,自我克制高于自我表现,一致性高于正直,那些保持自尊的人很可能是英勇的例外

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Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

每当文化经历了根本性的变化,就像我们的文化一样——从工业时代到信息时代——总有人会否认事情已经发生了变化;他们抗拒它,拒绝改变。

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

文化的存在和进化使其沦为互动的习惯范畴,而不断有意识地提及这些习惯范畴将使人类的互动成为不可能。

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

一个人永远不应该批评自己的工作,除非在一个新的和有希望的心情。一个疲倦的头脑的自我批评是自杀。

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

到目前为止,给人们自信是我能做的最重要的事情。因为他们会采取行动。