Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

  • -- Alain de Botton 阿兰·德波顿

拿起任何一份报纸或杂志,打开电视,你就会被如何拥有成功生活的建议轰炸。其中一些建议对我们自己的项目和优先事项毫无帮助——我们应该小心。

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Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

每个人都有决心——问题是你如何使用它。她的基础是权力、成功和征服;她不在乎她要做什么,也不在乎谁在这个过程中受伤。在这方面,我们非常非常不同。

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

即使人们在电视节目上很有钱,很成功,也总会有一些麻烦。你得给他们打洞,把他们从工作中赶出去,把馅饼扔到他们脸上。

You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure.

如果你不受伤,你就永远不会勇敢。如果你不犯错,你就永远学不会。如果你不遇到失败,你永远不会成功。

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

成功产生成功,正如金钱产生金钱。