Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

写作的习惯和生活中的习惯一样,只有在它们不再有利时被打破,才会有用。

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

在我旅行的过程中,那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面,我的旅行对我非常有用。

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

通过确定最佳策略并不断重复,直到它们成为习惯,在生活的任何领域取得成功。

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

语言知识非常有用。我有外语和文学的大学学位。

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

我认为“自然法则”也容易进化;我认为它们更像是习惯而不是法律。