My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

  • -- Eric Allin Cornell 埃里克·阿林·康奈尔

我的脑子里总是塞满了各种各样的事实,在我看来,这与我在学校里的注意力集中没有多大关系,更多的是由于我贪婪而杂食性的阅读习惯。

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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

好习惯能自动控制我们较低的激情和欲望,让我们的天性自由地探索生活中更大的经历。我们中有太多的人在辩论应该被视为理所当然的行动时分裂和浪费了我们的精力。

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

人们试图一次改变太多,结果变得势不可挡,他们最终放弃了这个计划。因此,慢慢地改掉坏习惯比一次性改掉要重要得多。

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

我要到八岁才会进入学校。我开始后也没有取得多大成就。我怀疑父亲去世时我是否总共上了六个月学。那时我十四岁。

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

提醒你,我并不总是那么喜欢莎士比亚。我猜我们都曾经在学校里把它硬塞进脖子里,这样就不会那么紧张了。