Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

把这个论点变成一个具体的形状,一个形象,一些强硬的短语,像一个圆圆的实心的球,他们可以看到,可以处理,可以带回家,那么这个事业就成功了一半。

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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

大多数高管、许多科学家以及几乎所有商学院毕业生都认为,如果你分析数据,这将给你带来新的想法。不幸的是,这种想法是完全错误的。头脑只能看到它准备看到的东西。

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

当我准备和一个男人讲道理时,我会花三分之一的时间思考我自己和我要说什么,三分之二的时间思考他和他要说什么。

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.

让我们自己的房子恢复秩序的理由,并不是说我们要抛弃这个世界。我们不能也不应该这样做。

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

写一本好书和写一本坏书一样费力,它发自作者的灵魂深处。

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

想法很简单。真正区分绵羊和山羊的是执行想法。

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

有人说,如果你有话要说,写作就会变得更容易。