Quotes

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On the big clock of time, there is only one word: present.

——William Shakespeare, English playwright

在時間的大鐘上，只有兩個字——現在。

——英國戲劇家莎士比亞

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

——Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright

我交朋友時選好看的，結交熟人時選高尚的，樹敵時選聰明的。

——愛爾蘭劇作家、詩人王爾德

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

——Emily Dickinson, American poet

沒有一艘船能像一本書，把人帶往遠方。

——美國詩人艾米莉·狄金森

Don’t go too slow otherwise the f lowers will have all withered. Don’t move too fast either, in case the flowers don’t have time to bloom.

——Anthony Ma, author

不要走得太慢，花會凋謝的。也不要走得太快，那樣，花還沒有開。

——作家安東尼

If a person has a few troublesome relatives, then his/her happiness levels will plummet straight down. In China, relatives are a group of people most lacking in sense of appropriateness.

——Zhou Chong, post-80s author

一個人如果有幾個熊親戚，生活的幸福值就會直線下降。在中國，親戚是最缺乏界限感的一群人。

——80后作家周沖

To want face conforms to human nature; to not want any face goes against it. The things that so-called “great” people do, generally go against their own human nature but conform to the human nature of a collective group.

——Ren Zhengfei, president of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

要臉是順應人性的，不要臉是違背人性的。所謂偉大者，干的基本上是有違自身人性但順應組織群體人性的事。

——華為總裁任正非