I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

我更喜欢和孩子们一起工作,他们的生活可能被周末读一本书彻底颠覆。你给他们一本书读,他们回家后就变成了另一个人。这是非常有趣和令人兴奋的。

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To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

对我来说,在一个团队中推动变革是非常重要的,因为一个人,虽然责任在某个人身上,但是公司对一个人来说太大了。

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.

给人一条鱼,他就有一天的食物;教他钓鱼,你整个周末都可以摆脱他。

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

我读得越来越少。我没有原谅书籍,因为它们没有告诉我真相,没有让我快乐。

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

我选择的意义,改变了我一生的意义:克服恐惧,看到奇迹。

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

周末不算,除非你把它们花在完全没有意义的事情上。

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

世界上的一切都可以改变,亲爱的弗洛雷斯坦,但人是可以改变的。

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

帮助那些不愿自助的人是浪费钱。

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

上次我在牙买加的时候,我资助一位老师在孤儿院教书。

In a good book the best is between the lines.

一本好书,最好的是字里行间。

Sport has the power to change the world.

体育有改变世界的力量。