When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

  • -- Quintilian 昆提利亚语

当我们不能指望胜利时,退让是一种优势。

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One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

在我成长的过程中,与这家公司以及其他公司的最高管理层关系密切,我有一个优势,那就是看到首席执行官们开始相信自己是绝对正确的。这让我很害怕。

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

记日记的一个好处是,你会清楚地意识到自己不断遭受的变化,这让人安心。

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

船不能只靠一个小锚,人生也不能只靠一个希望。

He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.

等待死人穿鞋的人,可能要光着脚走很长时间。