When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

  • -- Elizabeth Gilbert 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特

当一个人在这种文化中取得巨大成功时,人们开始问两个问题,那就是“你现在在做什么?”以及“你打算如何克服这个问题?”“我不得不说,我喜欢这种假设,即你的意图是不断地打败自己——你在与自己作战。

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

如果一个人不知道他是受必然性支配的,他就不能自由,因为他的自由总是在他从不完全成功地把自己从必然性中解放出来的努力中获得的。

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

我认为作为一名球员,每一年都有一种紧迫感,那就是今年我们将取得成功,并做一些让我们兴奋的事情。